Adam Grant Quotes
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
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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.
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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.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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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.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Music is about the performance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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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.
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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.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'
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I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.
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When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
