Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
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• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
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• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
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• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
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• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
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• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
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• Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fun
  • Relationships
  • Mentor

• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  

  Jack Markell
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• They call me Fearless Felix.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Me
  • Fearless
  • Call

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
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  • Building

• As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
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• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Yourself
  • Compete

• The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”

  

  Adele
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • Nature
  • Violence
  • Model

• The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Boring
  • Risks

• A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Philosophy