John Grant Quotes
You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
Quotes to Explore
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I think any workplace relationship is dangerous. That's been my personal experience. They haven't always worked out the best. But I know other people for whom it worked out great.
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I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.
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One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
