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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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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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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It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
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We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.
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The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
