Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I was born free.
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I really appreciate the opportunity to play on the All-Star court.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
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I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
