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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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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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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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.
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I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
