Andy Griffiths Quotes
I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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I've been a free man.
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
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I'm not someone who wants to be second-guessed at all.
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What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.
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In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. This law acts upon all aspects of one's life, shaping its course and destiny.
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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
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We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
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You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.
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I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.
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I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.
