Archie Griffin Quotes

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Good
  • You
  • Week

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Color
  • Hell

• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Married

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Good
  • Better
  • Bombing

• If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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  • Artist
  • End

• Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Fight
  • Scene

• I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Moment

• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• It is better to look good than to feel good.

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • Good
  • Better
  • Feel Good

• I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

  

  Chief Bender
  • High
  • Hand

• I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • Knowledge
  • Amazing
  • Miracle

• All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Church
  • Divorce

• The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

  

  Archie Griffin
  • Good
  • Determined