Dan Gilbert Quotes
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.
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In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
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My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
