Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
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What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.
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I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
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I am from Scranton, PA.
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[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
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there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try
