Lev Grossman Quotes

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

Lev Grossman

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LifePastI AmSpeakKeyLanguage

To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.

Johan Rockstrom

ProgressEnvironmentalWorldBend

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

John Collison

PeopleInfluenceWillFirstCompany

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

Mel Torme

ChildAmericaRadioDramaticGot

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

Steve Jones

MeCrazyShoppingBookThinkingNow

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

Tom Petty

GreatPeopleWaitSongYouKnow

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tom T. Hall

StoryEndFindMoralNeverGot

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

Mitchel Musso

MusicI AmEffortMeTeamWorld

To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.

Joseph Stiglitz

MeSomeoneDoorsProblemMoreTrade

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Ansel Elgort

WeirdEverythingInterestsArtistic

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

SheepPoliticianStatesmanThem

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

William Robertson Smith

GodMenReligionThinkNationWhole

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

HeartGrowAbsenceMakesFonder

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