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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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 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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I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children.
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An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
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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.
