Jeremy Grantham Quotes
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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The Acropolis – the spaces between the columns – the depth of flutings to touch – the breadth, weight and volume – the magnificence of a single marble bole up-ended -. The passionate warm colour of the marble and all-pervading philosophic proportion and space.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
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That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
