Dan Gilbert Quotes
Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo.
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Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home.
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Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
