Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Broadway is really my life.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
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Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
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Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
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I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
