Jeff Goodell Quotes
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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'Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!' the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
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It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
