David Grinspoon Quotes
What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.
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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?
