David Grann Quotes
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.
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Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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But I remember exactly where I was when I was sitting in front of the television when those ships from Russia were headed to Cuba.
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Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
