Blake Griffin Quotes
In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
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You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
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In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.
