Dan Gilbert Quotes
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Accept loss forever.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
