Adam Grant Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
Taylor Sheridan -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
Patrick M. Byrne -
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
I've been things and seen places.
Mae West -
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
Naomie Harris -
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Ma Jian -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass -
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
Padmasree Warrior -
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis -
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
T. H. White -
I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
Garry Shandling -
In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
Jeb Hensarling -
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
Adam Grant