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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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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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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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
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When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.
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People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
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Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.
