David Grinspoon Quotes
We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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'...old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain...After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.
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I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
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I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
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It's very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There's not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they're suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
