Al Goldstein Quotes

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

Al Goldstein

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Know
  • Street

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Parents

• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • World
  • Way
  • Gymnastics

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Poet
  • Philosopher
  • Foolish

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Better

• As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Me
  • Uncomfortable

• If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Violence
  • Resort

• The whole world tried to reproduce the Weber experiments.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • World
  • Experiments
  • Reproduce

• We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Africa
  • Belong
  • South Africa

• If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Fit
  • Rocks

• You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

  

  Al Goldstein