Gerald Griffin Quotes

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

Gerald Griffin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1803 - June 12, 1840

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AgeMedicalDoctorArmyDeadOut

We have to stop thinking about diversity and start thinking about inclusion. That's what you can take from August Wilson. That there are whole cultures out there living experiences exactly like yours, and their stories can be just as dynamic, sold in the foreign market, put as many butts in the seats as any Caucasian movie out there.

Viola Davis

DiversityStartThinkingYouLiving

An unused life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeDeathEarlyUnused

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Andrew Denton

FaithHatePeopleBlindYouCountry

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

John le Carre

AgeTimeMyselfStressIntelligence

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

Robert Pozen

PeopleStartProblemYouThreeSay

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Jeffrey Deitch

ArtFunBelieveSeriousI Believe

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.

Trevor Donovan

FriendSongGuitarJazzMineSongs

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

LiveMusicDeathConversationWonder

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.

Robert Crumb

GoodBestWorldDrawingYouHard

I built a lot of hot rods and stuff.

Tom Braidwood

HotStuffBuiltLot

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

Michael Sheen

FootballGrowing UpGrowingUp

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

YouProtestWouldArguePleaseHad

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