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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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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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 order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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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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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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I just thought Bean was someone we could partner with.
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I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
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And I tell you that whether or not these projection images are hallucinations, they can be dangerous and you must respect the reality in which they exist. I want to be sure that you realize that some of these constructions will belong to other systems. You are safe as long as you do not meddle. You may explore, and freely, and that is all.
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
