Gerald Vann Quotes
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music.
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.
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Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.
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To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
