Bill Griffith Quotes
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Thank God I have the right friends.
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
