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 -
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 -
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
Yasmine Bleeth
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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 -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
Zoe Lofgren -
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde -
Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
Bernie Mac -
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
Oprah Winfrey -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant