Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
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When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
