Bob Griese Quotes
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We were descended from royalty.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
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The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues. (p. 370)
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
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An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
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If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach.
