Curtis Granderson Quotes
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.
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The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority.
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I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
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A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
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I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
