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.
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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.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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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.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I'm not graceful.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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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.
