Paul Goldberger Quotes

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

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• I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Old

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

  

  Carl Olson
  • God
  • Politics
  • Catholic

• You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Movie
  • You
  • Fantasy

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Done
  • She
  • Man

• I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Walking

• The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Support

• I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Soul

• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Rest

• Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Music
  • She
  • Song

• They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

  

  Dyan Cannon

• I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Hockey

• To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

  

  Dave Pelzer
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mistake

• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Help
  • Information
  • Songs

• If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Far
  • Obstacle

• Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Hilarious

• I know that I'm here – I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Fate

• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  

  Paul Goldberger
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