Eddie Griffin Quotes
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
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Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.
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In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
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All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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Never floss with a stranger.
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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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What a world of gammon and spinach it is, though, ain't it!
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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...I haven't seen so many dirty snouts, and slimy arseholes crammed into such a small space since I last looked inside a sausage.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari.
