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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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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'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.
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Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
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You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.
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From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city, every village, and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
