David Grann Quotes
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
David Grann
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
Bailey Chase
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I don't get bothered by fans.
J. J. Watt
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Edith Evans
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
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Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them.
Connie Britton
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The sensible person reads the sociological journals mainly for the book reviews and the obituaries, and goes to sociological meetings only if he is looking for a job or has other intrigues to carry on.
Peter L. Berger
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
Adam McKay
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Ambitious people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread. Without ambitious people the world would never get up. They are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering, shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed.
Jerome K. Jerome
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What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
Anatoli Boukreev
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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
David Grann
