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'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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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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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.
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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.
