Paul Goldberger Quotes

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Paul Goldberger

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• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Children
  • Book
  • Study

• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Worship
  • Century

• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Men
  • Justice

• What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • City
  • Police

• A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

  

  E. Michael Burke
  • Game
  • City
  • Baseball

• What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Home
  • Reality

• It was a little skirmish across a century.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Century
  • Skirmish

• New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • True
  • City

• Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Character
  • City
  • Body

• The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Music
  • Small

• The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • Country
  • Soul

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!

  

  Kabir
  • House
  • City
  • Water

• Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Cities
  • Minorities
  • Confined

• One thing I've learned is that when you shoot something in the U.K., there's always going to be somebody called Trevor on your set. And maybe a Nigel. Occasionally a Colin.

  

  Michael Landes
  • Always
  • Something
  • Learned

• It's so hard to get started creatively - it's really hard to get those first ideas out. You just have to do it over and over again, and hopefully better ones start to come. Also, anytime a good idea comes up, for a long time I think, "Oh, my God, that was so lucky that I thought of that idea, whew, I hope that happens again." The more you work at it, the more it happens, but it still feels lucky.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Start

• How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Beautiful
  • Imagine

• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Cities
  • Century
  • Houston