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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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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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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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
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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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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.
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I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
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Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
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Believe while others are doubting.
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The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.
