Albert Goldbarth Quotes
If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and back a dozen times, a hundred … still you couldn’t count the planets that cohabit this planet.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
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when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
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If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and back a dozen times, a hundred … still you couldn’t count the planets that cohabit this planet.
