Bill Griffith Quotes

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

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The problem with Flipboard is that it's an app, not the Web, and I keep hoping someone will show me a really well-designed Web app that shows me that the Web can still win.

Robert Scoble

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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

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I prefer the path of peace over war.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

Steven Pinker

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America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

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It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

Mats Sundin

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It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

Mike Honda

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For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.

Michelle Huneven

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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Jared Diamond

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I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Chris Evert

LifeFearPeopleFlyingMy LifeHad

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

David Shields

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