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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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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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.
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I think dealing with mean girls is just a part of life. I never really took people like that too seriously.
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When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
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Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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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.
