Ellen Goodman Quotes
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Quotes to Explore
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack.
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When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
