Jeff Goodell Quotes
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 
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Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
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I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
