John Grant Quotes
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
Maajid Nawaz
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
Adam Grant
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
Zooey Deschanel
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
Lata Mangeshkar
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Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.
Taio Cruz
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
Barbara Kruger
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
Karl Pilkington
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
Maika Monroe
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You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
Dan Hawkins
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
Abigail Washburn
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I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Gerry Cooney
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
August Strindberg
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
Dolly Parton
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I overthink everything.
John Grant