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'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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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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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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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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Ridiculous as may seem the dualities of conflict at a given time, it does not follow that dualism is a worthless process. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
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Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.
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It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
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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.
