John Grant Quotes
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Daniel Boulud
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Oswald Spengler
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
Ian Millar
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
Zig Ziglar
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
Viggo Mortensen
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
Waylon Jennings
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
Imelda Staunton
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I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
Dana Priest
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
Kabir Bedi
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You have to open up on stage.
Karen O
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We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.
Barack Obama
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For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.
Wallace Stevens
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
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That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
John Grant