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 always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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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've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
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I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.
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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
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Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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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.
