John Grant Quotes
If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
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What we're doing with Airbnb feels like the nexus of everything that is right. We're helping people be more resourceful with the space they already have, and we're connecting people around the world.
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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
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If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.
