Adam Grant Quotes
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul -
I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
Taylor Swift -
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Ian Anderson -
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
Caitlyn Jenner -
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
Yael Stone
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
Waylon Jennings -
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble -
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
Jack Nicholson -
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
Tamsin Greig -
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet Garrett -
We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
Ozzie Smith
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
Carl Honore -
I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
J. K. Simmons -
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle -
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
Irving Kristol -
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
T. Boone Pickens -
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Patricia Richardson
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I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
Marilyn Monroe -
I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
Jason Aldean -
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama -
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
Natalia Ginzburg -
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Pedro Almodovar -
I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
Adam Grant