David Grinspoon Quotes
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
Quotes to Explore
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.
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You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
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When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
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The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
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It's not important which link you are in the chain of evangelism, just be sure you're not the missing link.
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What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
