Spalding Gray Quotes
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
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The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
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Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.
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The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.
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This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?
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The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
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The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.
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Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
