Bud Grant Quotes
If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
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My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
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If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.
