Adele Griffin Quotes
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
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I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
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Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
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Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.
