Alan Gerry Quotes

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

Alan Gerry

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• You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Experience
  • Words
  • You

• The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • World
  • Community
  • Internet

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I don't think about the media.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Think
  • Media
  • About

• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Christian
  • Morality
  • Follow

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Slavery

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Literature

• When you have new people coming in and you sort of want to show them the ropes, it's always easier to have people that know the process and are able to sort of just do their thing, and then everyone can kind of follow their lead.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • People

• The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has everything, and you are there to find the balance when you conduct. You don't have to give too much of your individuality. It's Bach, so it's dangerous to get in the way.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Balance

• We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.

  

  Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Identity
  • Existence
  • Recognition

• Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

  

  Mark Harmon
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Good
  • Drink
  • Beer

• When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

  

  Alan Gerry