Alan Gratz Quotes

Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

Alan Gratz

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• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Hip Hop
  • Forward

• The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Kid

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • History
  • Society
  • Problems

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Family
  • Father
  • Year

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Relationships

• Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Film

• I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Character
  • Sex

• I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Mad

• Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • People
  • Music

• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Home
  • Book

• Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Waiting
  • Military
  • September

• You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Thinking
  • Couple
  • Helping

• Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

  

  Alan Gratz
  • People
  • Books
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