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.
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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.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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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.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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.
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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.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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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.'
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
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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.
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You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely.
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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
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For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
