Arthur Goldberg Quotes
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
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I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
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Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
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Most people feel weird about white heels, but I love them and wear them with everything, especially when I need to mix up an all-black outfit.
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There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.
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Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
