Gary David Goldberg Quotes
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
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My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
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At home and in church - which I didn't go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, 'What's the shortest verse in the Bible?' and I was the one who always said 'John 11:35' straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me.
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When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.
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I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.
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I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
