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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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
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'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.
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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?
