Arnon Goldfinger Quotes

When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

Arnon Goldfinger

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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

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I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Jessica Capshaw

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So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Maya Angelou

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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

John Lydon

MusicWillMy OwnPossibleOwnLeft

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

John Mellencamp

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I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

Andy Weir

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If you can make money with your talents, why not?

Steve Prefontaine

MoneyYouWhyTalentsWhy NotYour

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

Rob Lowe

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For guys, I don't think you're ever ready... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.'

Rob Lowe

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I just really like being with my sister.

Milly Shapiro

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