Jeff Goodell Quotes

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

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• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Positive

• We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Power
  • Plants

• I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Energy

• I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • Slavery
  • Clay

• No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Alone

• First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Know
  • Said
  • Thank You

• A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religious
  • Option
  • View

• Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Time
  • Great
  • Moments

• It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature
  • Universe

• For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • God

• Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

  

  African Spir
  • Liberty
  • Distinct
  • Arbitrariness

• It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Together
  • Way
  • Teacher

• Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Live

• For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

  

  Jeff Goodell