Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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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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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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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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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
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In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
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For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
