LZ Granderson Quotes
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give something to their country. I just hope, for young people of this generation, that they'll experience that feeling once again, that by working on large goals, they can do something more than their own individual ambition.
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Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.
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I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.
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We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
