Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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The same song on a different day was a different song.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
