Albert Goldbarth Quotes
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
