Jay Griffiths Quotes
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
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Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.
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What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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All that Rent the Runway has really done is we've opened up the technology and logistics to make it possible to have the customer decide how long she needs an article of clothing for.
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Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
