David Grinspoon Quotes
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.David Grinspoon
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
Cam Gigandet -
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke -
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
Naomi Scott -
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.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
Ralph Fiennes
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin -
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head -
I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
Victoria Pendleton -
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn -
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
Yami Gautam -
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
Ram Charan -
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen -
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
Quentin Blake -
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.
William Randolph Hearst -
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams -
We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.
George Patterson -
You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
Eric Thomas -
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
David Grinspoon