David Grann Quotes
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
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I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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California, California Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways California, from my home I'll be leaving
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'
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I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.
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I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.
