Earl A Grollman Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
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I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known only by collectors, and finally a rediscovered artist who is finally recognized as a creative giant misunderstood in his own time. Then forgotten again. But if I get removed from the list, it'll probably be because there are just too many damn good writers out there, and any poll of some assortment of editors is going to come up with an equally valid, equally varied list.
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I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
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There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.
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