Greg Grandin Quotes

There was a brief moment, after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, when even Bill Clinton recognized what had been done to Haiti in the name of 'free trade': the destruction of local markets and rice production.

Greg Grandin

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The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Meir Kahane

AloneBeing AloneWishWithoutBeing

I am like a brick.

Amrish Puri

I AmBrickLikeAm

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Rohinton Mistry

DetailWorldDetailsYouWriteReal

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

FreedomCompetitionDemocracyValues

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Mitchel Musso

MusicPeopleGuitarArtistFirst

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

Dennis Rodman

MoneyStupidSayWhereverNBAExist

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Christopher Paolini

LoveGratefulWritingI CanAlways

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

LeaderAttitudeWinningThinkYou

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

Brian Blessed

DayFireEvery DayBreadRadioUp

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Brandon Boyd

LifeMusicMoneyPeopleDoorReward

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

LanguageRudeBoastPoliteWriters

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Peter Brimelow

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