David Grinspoon Quotes
Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.
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I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.
