John Grant Quotes
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
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If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.
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You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
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I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.
