LZ Granderson Quotes
With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.
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With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
