Gerry Schwartz Quotes
I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
