Erik Griffin Quotes
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
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Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
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If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
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Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
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As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
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Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.
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To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
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It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.
