Michael Gruber Quotes

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Michael Gruber

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• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
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• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Life
  • Change
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• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

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• I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
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• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Hands

• I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Friends
  • College
  • Doing

• The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Effort

• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Time
  • Favorite
  • Skin

• Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Value

• I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Up
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• When I get bored, I get into trouble.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Bored

• Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Up
  • Growing
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• You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.

  

  Craig Horner
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Hero

• I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Business
  • Job

• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Relationship
  • Single
  • Balance

• Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

  

  Sanya Richards-Ross
  • People
  • Events
  • Paper

• But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

  

  Michael Gruber
  • People
  • Mean
  • Stress