Daniel Goldstein Quotes

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

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• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wall

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • May
  • Dream
  • Shoes

• We, in some unknown Power's employ, Move on a rigorous line; Can neither, when we will, enjoy, Nor, when we will, resign.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Power
  • Unknown

• After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

  

  Ian Gillan
  • Different
  • Important
  • Kind

• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Cricket

• The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

  

  Lucas Grabeel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Chill

• My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

  

  Daniel Goldstein
  • Different
  • School
  • History