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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People don't care about questionnaires.
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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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I tell everyone that I'm 5 feet-1 inch tall, but I think I'm technically 5 feet. My mom says she's 4 feet 11 inches, and I'm barely taller than her.
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War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
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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.
