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Adam Grant Quotes

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1981

Topics

Power Chains Conformity Us

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Job Woman Longevity First Hard Next

Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.

Stefan Molyneux

Small Forward Back Achieve Way Same

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Townsend Harris

Change You Desire Settle Matter She

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

War People Black Country Class Used

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

Movies Silver Because Favourite Hall

With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand.

Michael Morpurgo

Book Year Down Settle React Hand

Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Beautiful Be Strong Support People

As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.

Learning Down Hand Lovely Up Room

I've seen a lot of zombie films as a teenager, and I think teens in general, or teen boys, watch a lot of horror. There's a lot of morbidity that goes on in that age.

Age Teen Think Horror Watch Seen

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Today Teen Growing Up Small Growing

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

Experiment Take Something Heavy Like

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

Richard Holbrooke

Pizza World Small Book Generation

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