Earl A Grollman Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"
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Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
