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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All of the points that Professor Lepore raised were not just wrong, but they were lies. Ours is the only theory in business that actually has been tested in the marketplace over and over again. ... And for her to take that on, to take me on and the theory on – I don't know where the meanness came from.
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I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.
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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Everything was working and I think that was the best I have thrown (this spring). I think I have reached a good point in getting ready, and I wish for the season to start.
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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.
