Bernhard Goetz Quotes
You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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I've been training quite hard.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
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The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
