Eban Goodstein Quotes
We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.
