Jonah Goldberg Quotes
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
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Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
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I consume music the way other people consume movies.
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The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
