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?
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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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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.
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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
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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?
