John Grant Quotes

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

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• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Live
  • Best

• I can go all over the world with Skype.

  

  Ram Dass
  • World
  • I Can
  • Skype

• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • California
  • Selling

• Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • World
  • Snack
  • Peanut Butter

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Art
  • Experience

• As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Golf

• 2015 was, like, packed from January. 2016 is simultaneously open and packed - but I'm trying to keep 2016 open as possible so I can do weird, crazy, kooky stuff.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Read
  • Explanation
  • Repeat

• I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

  

  John Grant
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth