Top 35 Bernhard Goetz Quotes
#1. That feeling I get when I go looking in my head for a word that isn't there, as if someone must have come and taken it in the night.
Neil Gaiman
#2. And his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.
Isaac Asimov
#3. You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
Bernhard Goetz
#4. I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
Bernhard Goetz
#5. Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.
Nelson Mandela
#6. Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
Bernhard Goetz
#7. Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.
Jeffrey Overstreet
#8. Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#9. You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
Bernhard Goetz
#10. When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.
Bernhard Goetz
#11. I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.
Bernhard Goetz
#12. I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
Erin McKean
#13. India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
Bernhard Goetz
#14. What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing
Hannah Arendt
#15. To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
Bernhard Goetz
#16. With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
Bernhard Goetz
#17. There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.
Candis Cayne
#18. Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her.
Tom Robbins
#20. I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
Bernhard Goetz
#21. I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.
Bernhard Goetz
#22. I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.
Bernhard Goetz
#23. During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
Bernhard Goetz
#24. I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
Bernhard Goetz
#26. When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.
Sheryl WuDunn
#30. For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
Queen Latifah
#31. I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.
Bernhard Goetz
#32. Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
Bernhard Goetz
#33. If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.
Bernhard Goetz
#34. It's delicious,' he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die with you in my arms.'
'I don't know. I think it's too cold for forever,' I say, smiling.
Joanna Mazurkiewicz
#35. When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.
Thomas Friedman
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