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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One of the good things about losing your feet is I can wear all the pointy shoes I want, and it doesn't hurt anymore. I can wear shoes just for fashion now.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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I would love to have children, as I am such a mommy. I have always been like that.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
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America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.
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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.
