Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
