Adam Grant Quotes
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
Ursus Wehrli -
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee -
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
Gamaliel Bailey -
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
Brown Campbell -
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra -
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
Karl Abraham -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
Karin Slaughter -
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
Jesse Eisenberg -
My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!
Lourdes Leon Ciccone -
You should always judge a book by its lovers.
Ashok K. Banker -
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
Peter McWilliams -
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
Adam Grant