Adam Grant Quotes
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won't know if I've done it until the audience sees it.
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I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.
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No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
