Greg Graffin Quotes - Page 2

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• I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

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  Deities, Needs, Want

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• You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

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  Creativity, Exercise, Fire

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• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

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  Destiny, Life And Death, Goal

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• There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

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  Vaccines, World, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

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  Christian, People, Challenges

  "Bad Religion Cut an Unlikely Christmas EP". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.rollingstone.com. November 28, 2013.

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• I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.

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  Believe, Impact, Law

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• Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

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  Data, Validation, Basics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• There's going to be competition because there are not enough resources. Resources grow arithmetically, populations grow exponentially. You can't ever have enough resources and that's the foundation of this idea of competition.

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  Ideas, Competition, Foundation

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship. So they have to open the gates to any a**hole's opinion. It's like 'oh that opinion is valid'. No, it's not. Not all opinions are valid, you know? It's this idea that every kid gets a trophy. Yeah, but someone won the game!

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  Kids, Games, Ideas

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.

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  Thinking, Media, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

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  Creativity, Independent, Unique

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• My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

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  Teacher, Class, Might

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• For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

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  Existence, Existence Of God

  Greg Graffin, Steve Olson (2010). “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

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  Powerful, Moving, Fossils

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• ....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

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  Song, Years, Enough

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• When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

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  People, Creative, Feelings

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• It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

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  Song, Writing, Energy

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• I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

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  Song, Reality, People

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• There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean? If you're in love with your wife you have to go in there with blind faith. You have to support everything. And with your kids, you have to believe that you're doing something that has higher purpose; even though you don't have any evidence that that's the way it's going to turn out.

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  Believe, Love You, Mean

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

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  Song, Strong, Stupid

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• Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.

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  Flavor Of The Month, Selling More, Important

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• A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

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  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We should enjoy and make the most of life

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  Should, Enjoy

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• Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

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  Stupid, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.

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  Ideas, Giving, Competition

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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