LZ Granderson Quotes
Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The world is turning,I hope it don't turn away.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
