Erik Griffin Quotes

It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.

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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.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Opinion
  • Media
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• 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.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• 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.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Me
  • Birth

• 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.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Fly

• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Support
  • Tobacco

• It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • View
  • Conservative

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • You
  • Champion

• 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.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • History
  • Garden
  • Impossible

• No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Stand
  • Minds
  • Against

• This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Good
  • Memories
  • Sad

• Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • American
  • Personality

• Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Fear
  • Spirit
  • Dust

• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

  

  David Talbot
  • Important

• I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Happy
  • Funny
  • Hurt

• It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Funny
  • Comic