Spalding Gray Quotes

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

Spalding Gray

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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.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Way
  • Care
  • Disaster

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Cats

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • You
  • Model
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
  • Take

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• 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.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • California

• The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

  

  Kurt Sutter

• I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Time

• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• 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.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America

• There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Life

• I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Up
  • Chocolate

• Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • People
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Childhood

• If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

  

  R. A. Schwaller
  • Heart
  • Vision
  • Answers

• Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Dark
  • Doubt

• The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Doubt