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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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.
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'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.
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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.
