Paul Goldberger Quotes

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Paul Goldberger

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• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • You
  • Matter

• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • History
  • Think
  • Matter

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Crazy

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Up
  • God
  • Age

• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Family
  • Me
  • Matter

• Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • You
  • Graffiti

• Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Education
  • Present
  • Environment

• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Popular
  • Matter
  • Start

• You're measured by championships no matter what.

  

  Candace Parker
  • You
  • Matter
  • Championships

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Civilization
  • Possible

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Done
  • Environment

• The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view-the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Environment

• Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Civilization
  • Collapsed
  • Tragedy

• I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Angry

• When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

  

  J. Gordon Melton
  • Religious
  • Use
  • Groups

• I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • People
  • Good
  • Fashion

• On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Environment
  • Matter
  • Civilization