David Grinspoon Quotes
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
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There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
