David Grinspoon Quotes
I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.
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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
