Blake Griffin Quotes

I like to play physical, and I'm a big guy, and I think sometimes - maybe sometimes I am pushing somebody, and I don't realize how hard I'm pushing them. And then they do it back, and it's kind of like, 'Jeez!'

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• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

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• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

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• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

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• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

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• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

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• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
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• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

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• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

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• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

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• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

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• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

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• The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

  

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• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

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• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  

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• I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

  

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• I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

  

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• When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going?

  

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• I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

  

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• You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

  

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• I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

  

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• I like to play physical, and I'm a big guy, and I think sometimes - maybe sometimes I am pushing somebody, and I don't realize how hard I'm pushing them. And then they do it back, and it's kind of like, 'Jeez!'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Guy