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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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.
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I am no mother, and I won't be one.
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It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.
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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.
