David Grann Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
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There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
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The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.
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The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.
