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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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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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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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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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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In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
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I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.
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It was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than as a person.
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Felt great, free, abandoned, a different, improved, perfected specimen of a different, improved, perfected species. It was wild! It was beautiful! It really was.
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America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
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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.
