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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Money just draws flies.
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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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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
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I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
