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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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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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 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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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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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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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
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The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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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.
