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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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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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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I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.
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A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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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.
