David Grann Quotes
It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
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Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
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Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, 'Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death.'
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I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for granted and you have to work for what you get so. That's funny because my friend Frank Anderson said something really funny he goes, "A lot of the people from the midwest are the laziest shits I've ever met." And he's right. I know some. You can't say its a stereotype that only people from the Midwest are that way because there are definitely people I know who hate to work and just want to hang out and drink beer.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
