David Grinspoon Quotes

The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

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• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• I like new challenges and new experiences.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Challenges
  • New
  • Experiences

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Connection

• Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Work
  • Cold

• For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Long
  • Trying

• The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  

  David Grinspoon
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