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.


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You'll have to rent a shop, open a retail display area, buy the refrigerators and equipment and subs...
PAUL GOODMAN
They can do that because there are additional revenue streams available beyond the hardware. That ch...
MICHAEL GOODMAN
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman g...
LEN GOODMAN
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
JOHN GOODMAN
I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
LEN GOODMAN
I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How...
BENNY GOODMAN
He uses anecdotes for the same reason other people climb mountains - they are there.
WALTER GOODMAN
these punks come along and deface it.
OSCAR GOODMAN
A place like Las Vegas, which is the greatest city in the world, will not allow anyone to be prejudi...
OSCAR GOODMAN
including the run down old, saggy naked broad show at the Tropicanna.
OSCAR GOODMAN
It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo...
ALISTAIR GOODMAN
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
JOHN GOODMAN
Nowadays, very few children actually learn to swim. Instead, they learn to play in the water.
CHUCK GOODMAN
As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not ...
MIKE GOODMAN
It's understandable why he did what he did in the context of a couple of very strange years where al...
JON GOODMAN
This was the weirdest storm we ever worked. It did about three loops, four stalls and a sprint.
MARK GOODMAN
Article Six of Maryland's Declaration of Rights states that when the state is oppressing its people ...
CHRIS GOODMAN
We want to make sure the city is offering the services that our citizens need and desire.
CHUCK GOODMAN
'The Island' was a gigantic disappointment.
ADAM GOODMAN
When it gets to this point that staff members are so unhappy that they want an editor suspended, it ...
MARK GOODMAN
I can't think of a strategy to protect her against them.
ADAM GOODMAN
They just need to be able to recover so they can go back and do what the Lord has entrusted them to ...
OSCAR GOODMAN
I have never heard a lady say 'arse,'" the emperor said mildly.
"I haven't been a lady for long...
ALISON GOODMAN
Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
JOHN GOODMAN
I was first hired at Staples in 1992, by company founder Tom Stemberg and eventual CEO Ron Sargent, ...
SHIRA GOODMAN
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," Jess intoned as they took the path down from the parking lot....
ALLEGRA GOODMAN