John Grant Quotes
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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'It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick ... 'that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.'
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You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
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The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.
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Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
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Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
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I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.
