Lev Grossman Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
