Eddie Griffin Quotes
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
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I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.
