David Grinspoon Quotes

In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.

David Grinspoon

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TimeChanceThinkLearnPlanYou

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

AgeHistoryTimePleasureFiction

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Andy Goldsworthy

AnimalEnergyJust BecauseKindWay

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Andy Serkis

ThinkProcessYouActingUnderstand

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

Michael Bisping

FightPeopleMeOpinionWriteOff

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Merce Cunningham

MindChanceOperationsUsing

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Amy Winehouse

LifeWorkDayYourselfPeopleMagic

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Stephane Hessel

WomanManYourselfPeopleAction

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

Suge Knight

ManI AmWillYears100 YearsHere

I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

LifeWorkRelationshipImpossible

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

Pep Guardiola

ChangePeopleTeamYouLookSkills

My mom says I'm not allowed to move out, but I'm allowed. I said I have to FaceTime her every night to make dinner with her because I won't be able to do it myself. So she said she'll accept it if I do that.

Shawn Mendes

MyselfMomDinnerNightSaidAccept

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Serena Williams

LifeDayThinkingMy LifeGoTennis

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