David Grann Quotes

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

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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.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• 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.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Present

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• 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.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• 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.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• 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!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Person
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Food
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Problems
  • Results
  • Possible

• 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.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Romantic
  • Really
  • Fact

• More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Process
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • Achievement
  • Realization
  • Momentary

• I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

  

  David Finckel
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Participation

• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Failure
  • Teacher

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Wonder

• The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

  

  David Grann