Al Goodman Quotes

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

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

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

You have to look good.

The media—stenographers to power.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

You’re entering a world of pain.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

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We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

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

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.