Adam Grant Quotes
When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
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Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
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I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.
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You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.
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There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
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When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
