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.Ellen Goodman
Quotes to Explore
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe -
I'm not an architectural composer.
Harrison Birtwistle -
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.
Rafael Nadal -
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I can always go back to education.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
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.
Sam Wyly -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett -
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer -
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes
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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!
Randy West -
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler -
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.
Wendy Liebman -
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
Sam Altman -
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
Warren Farrell
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Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.
Phil Klay -
I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
Bruno Mars -
Most geniuses are weird.
T-Pain -
People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
Pablo Picasso -
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Ellen Goodman