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'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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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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Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
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My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.
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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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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.
