Jay Griffiths Quotes
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
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As a kid, I always looked up to supermodels, thinking about how amazing they are. I always wanted to be in photos.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
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One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
