Jay Griffiths Quotes

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Jay Griffiths

Recitation: by Male by Female

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A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

WarBodyWillProtectSurgeonOut

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

John Wycliffe

TruthBelieveEndConquerWill

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

BestMindFactsMapPsychologyWeb

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Jose Marti

TorchBeingBeenWhoPairHe

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Diana Ross

NeverLabelThingGotten

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

Dennis Quaid

GoodMoneyDinnerCharityThree

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

Denis Leary

TechnologyBrokenNumbersChannels

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

Deirdre O'Kane

ActingLeftBecomingJustSetComic

You always feel more attracted to people who play the way you play.

David Silva

PeopleFeelYouPlayWayMore

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

Christina Hendricks

LoveFantasyAnythingSurrealSort

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

MeaningSociallyConstructed

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

Chris Pine

MyselfCollegeBackLivingKnowing

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