John Grant Quotes
I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
-
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
-
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
-
I have played cricket on my own terms.
-
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
-
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
-
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
-
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
-
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
-
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
-
At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
-
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
-
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
-
I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
-
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
-
Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
-
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
-
I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded.
-
I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.
-
I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
