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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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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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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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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An interesting way into the celebrity interview podcast is via their dogs. Celebs may not be keen to let us into their homes, because they don't like us to see how wealthy they are. However, tell them you want to go for a walk on Hampstead Heath with them and their mutt, and they're only too happy.
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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.
