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.
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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.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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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.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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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.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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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.
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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.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
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Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.
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During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
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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.
