David Grinspoon Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
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My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and... placing bets...
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I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.
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I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.
