Gerry Schwartz Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I don't like attacking.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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I like being by myself.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
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Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
