Dan Gilbert Quotes
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
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The possibility of collusion between Trump's allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate. It is a constitutional crisis. It represents a violation of our republic's most sacred trust.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
