David Goodstein Quotes
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
Quotes to Explore
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
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No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
