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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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as she did not want to carry a gun. She worked mostly on domestic disturbances. The NAACP wanted her to do it. She did not actually have the temperament to be a cop - she was very sweet. She had a Masters in social work.
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I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
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Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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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.
