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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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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 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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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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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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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
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All great players want to be the reason the team wins.
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No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.
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When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
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Love and magic are like oil and water – they just don't mix.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
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Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
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It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
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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.
