David Gross Quotes
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
