David Grinspoon Quotes
There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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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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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
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Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.
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Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
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There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
