Arthur Goldberg Quotes
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
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This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
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I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.
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Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of there substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may ever be new.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.
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It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
