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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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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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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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.
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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.
