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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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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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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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.
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But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
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I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
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PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.
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I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
