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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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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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
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You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.
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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.
