Jay Griffiths Quotes

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

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• I'm high energy.

  

  Karl Urban
  • High
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  • High Energy

• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Hate
  • Like
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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Up
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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I spend a lot of time with my characters.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

  

  Kate Bush
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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
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• Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Communication

• To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • Age

• There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture

• My old daddy used to say 'kill the closest snake first'.

  

  John Dingell
  • Snake

• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

  

  Jay Griffiths