LZ Granderson Quotes
Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
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Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
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Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
