David Grann Quotes

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

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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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Successful
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fear
  • You
  • Always

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Decision
  • Human
  • Projects

• Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Tribe

• I'm not really into rap.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Rap
  • Really

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good People

• The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Women
  • Character

• To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Angry
  • Revenge

• I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

  

  Jeffrey Tate
  • Age
  • Career
  • Fashion

• Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • Time
  • May
  • Spiritual

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Hand
  • Place
  • Happened

• Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

  

  David Grann