Dana Goldstein Quotes
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.
Quotes to Explore
-
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
-
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
-
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
-
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
-
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
-
I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
-
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
-
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
-
These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
-
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
-
It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
-
I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
-
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
-
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
-
It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
-
I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
-
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
-
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
-
Good style, to me, is unseen style.
-
Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
-
Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
-
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
-
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
-
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.
