Bill Griffith Quotes

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

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• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

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• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

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• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

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• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

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• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

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• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

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• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

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• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

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• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

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• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

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• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

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• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

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• Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

  

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• Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

  

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• I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

  

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• The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

  

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• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • School
  • Art