Blake Griffin Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us thy humble home; Rise, the woman's conquering Seed, Bruise in us the serpent's head. . . . Adam's likeness, Lord, efface; Stamp thine image in its place. Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in thy love.
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L.A.'s been my home.
