Gerry Lindgren Quotes
Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
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We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
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Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
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A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
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Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
