Dana Goldstein Quotes
Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
-
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
-
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
-
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
-
They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
-
I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
-
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
-
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
-
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
-
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
-
It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
-
Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
-
Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
-
I have a pig valve.
-
I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
-
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
-
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
-
I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
-
I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.
-
Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.
-
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
-
Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.
