Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
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I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
