Tony Goldwyn Quotes

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

Tony Goldwyn

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• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Best

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Me
  • Just

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Game
  • Best

• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Years
  • Something
  • Tried

• Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Moment
  • Inside

• I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Stop
  • Working
  • About

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • History
  • Imagination

• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy