Adam Grant Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
Aaron Johnson -
Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
Aaliyah -
With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
Garrett Hedlund -
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
Karolyn Grimes -
Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron -
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
Yves Behar
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
Danica Patrick -
I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
Daniel Bryan -
Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
Nadia Comaneci -
When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
Paige VanZant -
There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Iman -
I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
Abbi Glines
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I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
Gabourey Sidibe -
What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
Najib Mikati -
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
B. D. Wong -
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
Carlton Cuse -
The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.
Gabrielle Union -
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
B. B. King
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Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
Chris Hardwick -
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
Larry King -
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
Kim Cattrall -
I'm chuffed to be getting gritty stuff.
Ben Hardy -
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
Mahalia Jackson -
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
Adam Grant