G. Edward Griffin Quotes
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I think his improvement has come more on the mental side than the physical side.
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My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
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I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
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At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
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As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
