John Grant Quotes
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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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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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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I'm certainly proud of the transformation of Playboy from a magazine to a multimedia corporation.
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I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
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It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
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No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.
