Erik Griffin Quotes
Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
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When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'
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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
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Culture changes with economic development.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
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A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!
