Tim Griffin Quotes

We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'

Tim Griffin

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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

Jess Row

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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Jeanette Winterson

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There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

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I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul.

Mohit Chauhan

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Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

Julia Stiles

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The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing.

Dontrelle Willis

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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.

Derek Walcott

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Remember Robin Williams's great work as the voice of the genie in Disney's 'Aladdin'? Because he wanted to leave something wonderful behind for his kids, he said, he did the voice for a cut-rate fee of $75,000, far below his usual $8 million payday. But then something happened: The movie became a huge hit, raking in $504 million.

Christopher Voss

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'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.

Clint Smith

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My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

Ariana Grande

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Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

Allu Arjun

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I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

Phoebe Snow

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