Adam Grant Quotes
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.Adam Grant
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst -
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Valerie Plame -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
A. R. Rahman
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Taylor Caldwell -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Yuri Milner
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
Vanilla Ice -
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
Dan Aykroyd -
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges -
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
Dana Priest -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
Colin Mochrie -
This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.
Kurt Busch -
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
Elizabeth Hardwick -
There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
Wolfe Tone -
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Adam Grant