Adam Grant Quotes
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I never say no to an ice cream.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
