Adam Grant Quotes
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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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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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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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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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
