Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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All I want to do for the rest of my life is be with Diana 24/7. We're creative people, and we love to work together.
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Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
