Dwight Gooden Quotes

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

Dwight Gooden

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • American
  • America
  • Canada

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Today
  • Universe
  • Creative

• I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Optimist

• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

  

  Karen Black
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Guitarist

• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Think
  • Film

• Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Power
  • History

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Earth
  • Air

• Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος.

  

  Aeschylus

• I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Why

• We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Important

• Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

  

  Angie Martinez
  • Time
  • Rap

• I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• [The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Succeed
  • Concepts
  • Remembering

• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Food
  • Grandmother
  • Dramatic

• One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Design

• Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Wedding

• I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Live
  • Daughter

• Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

  

  Dwight Gooden