Jeremy Grantham Quotes
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
Quotes to Explore
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I can't believe that person on the television is really me.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
