Bill Griffith Quotes
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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Usually, when people are asked, 'Would you ever do high school again?' a good 99 percent of them say, 'Oh God, no. I would never do that again.' I would absolutely go back to high school.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
