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My grandfather once told me; the soul of business is not making money but making people happy.

Soul Happy Told Not
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Born Descendant Emperor Family
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Acceptance Amount Could Grandfather
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

Vision Possible Create Believe
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I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

Realise Believe Wide High
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I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Born Central Divorced Grandparents
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Achieve Dreams Equals Imagination
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Despised Holiday Worth Father
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Expectations Opens Closes Doors
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Begin Grandiose Man Politics
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Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Attention Bold Gestures Grand
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Book Cannot Composed Comprehend
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Girl Grand Like Pianos
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Always Changes Fashion Feel
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My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

John Wayne Orson Welles Steve Harvey LarrGrandmother
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

Call Childhood Family Family And Friends
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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Airplane Automatic Engineer Grandfathe
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

City Every Fun Grandpa
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Afraid Am America Experiment
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Been Bone Broken Could
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My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

Being Born College Go
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

About Am Backing Families
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Down Going Grand Like
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

Always Born Children Cousins
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Any Easier Explain Feel
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When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

When I Was Younger
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Before Grandfather Had He
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
World Better Place Grandchildren
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Happier Love Adore Husband
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Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Car Cause Crash Died
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My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

Big Embarrass Fuzzy Grandmother
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Expensive Grand Had Like
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As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

Begins Economy Goes Grand
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My Father Didn't Know
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Army Author Challenge Corners
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Almost AlmostNothing Beyond Child
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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