David Grinspoon Quotes
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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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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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
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If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.
