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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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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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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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.
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He's mellowed out a bit. Now he has something else to be stressed about instead of just the band.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
