Dan Gilbert Quotes
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
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You know, I love acting.
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They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
