Bill Griffith Quotes
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.
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I made a statement all my own.
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I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.
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The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
