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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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
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The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.
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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
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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.
