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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The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
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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.
