Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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'But what do the words mean?' asked the wondering Mole. 'That I do not know,' said the Rat simply. 'I passed them on to you as they reached me. Ah! now they return again, and this time full and clear! This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple - passionate - perfect - '
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
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No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.
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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
