LZ Granderson Quotes

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
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• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
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• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  

  Patrice Leconte
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• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
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• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
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• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  

  J. William Fulbright
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• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
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• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
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• I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• 'The Grace of Kings' draws on Western traditions as much as it does on Chinese traditions, though the bones of the story are drawn from the Chu-Han Contention period before the Han Dynasty.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Period
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• Products are valued higher than services.

  

  James Altucher

• I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

  

  Adam West
  • People

• There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

  

  LZ Granderson
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