Dan Gilbert Quotes
Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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I love old school rock and roll.
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I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
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Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
