David Grann Quotes
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.