Goodman Quotes

• We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

  Ellen Goodman

  Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

  Saul

  Real, Names, Tribes

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• If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Stories, Kevin, Enough

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• After  you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you  might as well go out and have a good time.

  Benny Goodman

  Done, Might, Good Times

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• Some people are immune to good advice.

  Saul

  People, Advice, Immune

  "'Breaking Bad' Deconstruction, Ep. 11: 'Confessions'" by Tim Goodman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 25, 2013.

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• I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

  Ellen Goodman

  Firsts, Journalism, Tension

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• The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

  Ellen Goodman

  Encouraging, Confidence, Hate

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• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

  Ellen Goodman

  Powerful, Mind, Tradition

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• If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.

  John Goodman

  New Orleans, Smell, Guy

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• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

  Len Goodman

  People, Nerves, Please

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• I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

  Woody Allen

  Song, Art, Morning

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Names, Interesting, Political

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• I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

  Carol Burnett

  Gun, Circumstances, Bergdorf Goodman

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Father, Son, Years

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Next, Carolina

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• Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

  Mel Torme

  Men, Magic, Void

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• I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

  Jillian Hervey

  Thinking, Vision, Mets

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  Artie Shaw

  Listening, Scalpels, Clarinet

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• The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

  Artie Shaw

  Stars, Distance, Swings

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• It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

  Bill Murray

  Being Yourself, Jobs, Fun

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• I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

  Val Kilmer

  Thinking, Parent, Three

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• Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Baseball, Age, Band

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

  Alvin Lee

  Christian, Guitar, Play

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• Like Lucas [Goodman] has said, between the people we've met, and the experiences we've had, it's just our growth. It's just something that represents all of what Lion Babe started as and where we're going.

  Jillian Hervey

  People, Growth, Lions

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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