Al Goodman Quotes

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

Few great men could pass personnel.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.

Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

[The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.