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.
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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.
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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.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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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.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.
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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.
