John Grogan Quotes

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

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• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Girl

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Girl
  • Lucky
  • Very

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Heart
  • Celebrity

• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Studio

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • People
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Balance

• In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Motivational

• I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

  

  John Grogan
  • Trying
  • Environment