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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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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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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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
