LZ Granderson Quotes
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.
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I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.
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I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
