LZ Granderson Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
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Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
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Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.
