David Grossman Quotes
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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I like to get real pretty.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I am going to support Ola.
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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
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Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.
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You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
