Bill Griffith Quotes

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

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LightCultureDownKindSideBeing

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Jidenna

CapitalismThinkEverythingI Think

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

Steve Rushin

LoveBusinessYouMeanTopHim

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

Simon Schama

StoryExtraordinaryJewishWandering

I love the medium of film.

Tom Welling

LoveFilmMediumI Love

For years and hundreds of thousands of miles, I drove with one knee, with the eight-track and the light dome on in the car, and a yellow pad, just writing down random ideas. I had notebooks and notebooks. The next morning, I'd go, 'Whoa, what was I thinking?' But there'd be one or two ideas that weren't that bad.

Roddy Piper

CarMorningLightYellowIdeasBad

The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.

Michael T. Weiss

PeopleSocietyBelieveInteresting

I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love.

Michaela Coel

PeopleBlackGenerationAmericanTV

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

Don Yaeger

BusinessTimeBestCompetitionHalf

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

Brian Fallon

LifeChangeYouShapeYour

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

Brad Pitt

CulturePeopleNightBelieveLoved

Those who want low taxes and healthy job creation know that an unnecessary dollar going to these unions is a dollar that cannot reduce the tax burden on homeowners, small businesses, and job creators.

Bruce Rauner

JobSmallHealthyKnowBurdenWant

'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.

Brie Larson

TimeShortBudgetTryingWorthSame

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