David Grinspoon Quotes

Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.

David Grinspoon

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TimeChallengesSurviveFindingNew

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Jo Brand

LearnDifficultNastyTakeVery

Many of the basic lessons of business, such as the critical value of customer service or measuring risk against reward when investing capital, have essential application in government, but not in a vacuum.

John Hickenlooper

BusinessServiceGovernmentValue

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.

Jeff Kinney

FriendBestCollegeTeamKnowMeet

I don't care about history; all I care about is winning.

Stipe Miocic

HistoryWinningCareAboutI Care

Nothing will turn you into more of a 'Star Wars' fan than being on a 'Star Wars' set. When you see how lovingly that world is rendered by the set designers, costume designers, props department, art department, they genuinely build an actual world. That is not an exaggeration. They build a world.

Riz Ahmed

ArtWorldYouBuildNothingWill

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Dee Hock

GoodExperiencePeopleEasyProvide

One can only improvise what one knows.

David Thewlis

OnlyImproviseKnows

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeTimeWorldYouNewKnow

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

Anton du Beke

SleepTroubleScheduleHoursFour

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Antonio Munoz Molina

WomenMenEqualityMen And WomenFew

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

Annie Potts

WorkImpossibleYouSeeingKnowWhy

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Sheena Easton

LifeMotherI AmProfessionalNever

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