G. Edward Griffin Quotes
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
