John Grant Quotes
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
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We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.
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Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.
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When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
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I'm an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.
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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
