Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Child
  • Meeting

• Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Scared
  • Bold
  • Original

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Thoughts
  • Politeness

• I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Care
  • Really

• The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Know
  • Church
  • Discipline

• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Right
  • Someone

• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Moment
  • Sacrifice

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Past

• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Result
  • Horrible
  • Evils

• Every fat must stand upon its own bottom.

  

  John Bunyan

• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Win
  • Aspirations
  • Nobel Prize

• I always like to say, I am to most phenomenal thing that touched men kind...lol, lol. Yeeaa Men.. Besides that, I don't eat a lot; I don't eat a lot of carbohydrates. I am just naturally big like this, that's all. That's just something I do, if people see me on stage they are always like "man, that dude is huge". I mean I am in a good shape, I don't drink or smoke, so there are a lot of things I don't do.

  

  Bone Crusher
  • People
  • Smoke
  • Touched

• I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • University
  • Badly

• I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Like
  • Read
  • Contemporary

• I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.