Blake Griffin Quotes
Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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I just don't really like going to the gym that much, and I love eating.
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I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.
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After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
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Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.
