Arnon Goldfinger Quotes
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
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And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.
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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.
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Truth is often attended with danger.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
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We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
