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.Jay Griffiths
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
Daniel Gillies -
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
Tabitha Soren -
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Ferdinand Marcos -
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry -
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.
Lake Bell -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda
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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.
Karel Capek -
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!
Nathan Kress -
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas -
You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
Jack McCollough -
I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
Hansika Motwani -
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.
E. L. Konigsburg
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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.
Danica McKellar -
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
Taylor Swift -
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
Daniel Clowes -
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.
Yehuda Berg -
What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
Raghuram Rajan
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
Taya Kyle -
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Gene Tierney -
By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
Garrett Clayton -
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope Francis -
People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
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.
Jay Griffiths