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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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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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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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 can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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Cultural activity is what makes us human.
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
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The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.
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I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
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This is the most accurate our team has been since I can remember. It wound up being one of those games you dream about.
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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.
