David Grinspoon Quotes
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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And so Christianity was the only evangelistic religion that we know of in antiquity, and, along with Judaism, it was also the only one that was exclusive. That combination of evangelism and exclusion proved to be decisive.
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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
