John Grant Quotes

Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.

John Grant

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LearningGoodMusicMePersonWrite

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

Meghan O'Rourke

I AmChildSayIrishTwoReligious

Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.

Max Aaron

WorkGameHockeyThinkEndSpeed

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

Michael Gove

SchoolControlKnowTeachersClass

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system.

Michael Dickinson

WorkFruitCameraFastHumanSystem

There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.

Tom Scholz

PeopleGoWantBostonSeeOut

Our group has been in Asia since 1981 in mining, oil and gas. Now we want to mine not silver and gold, but great stories and people, and change the world of cinema, and we want to do that by walking in the footsteps of Wu Tianming.

Robert Friedland

ChangeGreatChange The WorldPeople

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood.

Michael Keaton

PeopleHollywoodAlwaysKindsMake

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

Douglas Tompkins

TreesYouDownCountryPatriotAir

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

Christian Bale

BestPeopleDoingYouActingLights

I would give illegal immigrants already here a three-month grace period to apply for a temporary worker's visa. If they failed to apply within that time frame, they would be considered fugitives, and they would be found and deported.

Chuck Norris

TimeGraceImmigrantsFrameWithin

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

Pippa Middleton

EarlyWriteSignaturePracticing

I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him!

SZA

LoveMountainWantHimEveryone

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