Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes

Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • See
  • Nobody
  • Vine

• Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Game

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • People
  • You
  • Religion

• Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Television

• Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.

  

  Carlo Borromeo
  • Prayer
  • Meditation
  • Birth

• I'm not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal.

  

  Neymar
  • Trying
  • Space

• Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Environment

• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Balance