John Grant Quotes

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

John Grant

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I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

Jenova Chen

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Our veterans and service members are known for their strength, but when they're recovering from an operation or receiving emergency care, that strength can depend on seeing a spouse, talking with the kids or just knowing that loved ones are by their side. It isn't difficult to imagine what a difference keeping families together can make.

John Delaney

StrengthServiceTogetherCareLoved

Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.

John Hillcoat

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When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

Robert Hunter

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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

John Sandford

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While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn't the best time to try and gain insight.

Amy Morin

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People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

Sophie Thompson

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A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

Stevie Nicks

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School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Mike Gallagher

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I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Lou Gehrig

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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Anthony Trollope

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