Dan Gilbert Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
