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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• 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.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• 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.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Always
  • Sword

• 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.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• 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.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • First
  • Wedding
  • Ever

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Black
  • Grandparents

• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  

  Mary Crosby
  • Long
  • Retirement
  • Vacation

• At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers

  

  John Stockwell

• 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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