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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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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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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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.
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I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
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I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.
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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.
