Spalding Gray Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.
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I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.
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I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.
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I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
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With 'Captain America,' you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups, and it's tedious.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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...it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.
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Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.
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He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
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There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.
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The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.
