G. Edward Griffin Quotes
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
