Bill Griffith Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
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I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
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Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
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I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
