Eban Goodstein Quotes
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.
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I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
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John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
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I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we're on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.
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Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
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You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing.
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Love is many and truth is just, And so we are; Both What we choose, And we refuse.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
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The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.
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The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
