Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
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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.
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Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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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.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
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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.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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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.
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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.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
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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.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
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Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.
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You can't control everything.
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I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
