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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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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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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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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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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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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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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He 'the male' is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
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A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.
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I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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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.
