Adam Grant Quotes
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.Adam Grant
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross -
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.I.A. -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
Raekwon -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren -
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
Vincent Cassel -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
Kajol
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
Yasmine Bleeth -
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
Carla Gugino -
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
Mae Whitman -
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
Samuel Johnson -
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay -
I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.
Liam Cunningham -
When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.
Bethany Mota -
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
Kurtis Blow -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant