Kathy Griffin Quotes

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Story

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Love
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Best

• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Pop Music

• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Rather
  • Million

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

  

  James Allen
  • Power
  • Thoughts

• Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.

  

  Leon Bourgeois
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

  

  Conor Maynard
  • Unique

• The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • People
  • Forever
  • Greek

• I love to work. I love doing standup.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Work