Joe Gold Quotes

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

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• I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

  

  Parker Young
  • Love
  • Day
  • Chocolate

• I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Make A Difference

• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • News
  • Editor
  • Broadcaster

• Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • America
  • Happy

• Find something that makes you happy and go for it.

  

  Zendaya
  • Happy
  • You
  • Find

• I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Help
  • Free

• In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and have rescued many dogs. We've lived in the woods and sometimes have had as many as 70 sled dogs. Or had six or seven dogs living in the house. Dogs have saved my life on more than one occasion - and I mean that literally.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Life
  • Family
  • House

• It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Hair

• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Wife

• The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Way
  • Story

• When she gets into negotiations with her European counterparts about trade arrangements, could she remind them that cake exists to be eaten and cherries exist to be picked.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • She

• …he had to admit to a faint admiration (faint as angostura colouring gin and water)

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Water

• '(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Experience

• It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Power

• But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition's forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • America

• It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Police

• When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Service
  • Mood

• I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word 'fuck' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • People
  • World
  • Doubt

• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Canvas
  • Vessel
  • Launch

• Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

  

  Joe Gold