Goons Quotes

• Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Simple, Perspective

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• Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons,
  Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons.
  I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons,
  They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

  Elzhi

  Rap, June, Air

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• If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Mean, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

  Karl Hess

  Children, Home, Exercise

  "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

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• It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.

  Daniel Pearce

  Trying, Looks, Matter

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• "Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"

  Lil Wayne

  Hater, Goblin

  Song: A Millie 2.0, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

  Eric Gagne

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

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• Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

  Spike Milligan

  Order, Perfect, Kilts

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• Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Art, Squad

  Song: Fashion, 1980

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• Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

  Jennifer Egan

  Time, Scotty

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• I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

  Spike Milligan

  Health, Years, Body

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• Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, People, Born

  Spike Milligan (2014). “Puckoon”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Heart, Blue

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.135, Random House

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• Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

  Jon Anderson

  Tattoo, Warrior, Artist

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• The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Earth, Faces, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

  Jennifer Egan

  Book, Squad, Usual

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• If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

  Smedley Butler

  Military, Squad, Today

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• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  Wanda Jackson

  Animal, Rooms, Bears

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• And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Games, Noon

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, White, Tables

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Thug, Six

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• There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

  Frank Rich

  Hero, Gay, Rights

  "The Rage Is Not About Health Care". www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2010.

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• This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Book, Home, Eye

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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