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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Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
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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.
