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  • I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

    Teenage   Rocks   Years  
    "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.
  • If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

    Running   Mean   Order  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

    Time   Goons   Scotty  
  • But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

    Age   World   Als  
  • Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

    Fashion   Art   Squad  
    Song: Fashion, 1980
  • Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

    Order   Perfect   Kilts  
  • This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

    Book   Home   Eye  
  • If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

    Military   Squad   Today  
  • We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

    "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
  • "Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"

    Hater   Goons   Goblin  
    Song: A Millie 2.0, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008
  • King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

    Kings   White   Tables  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks
  • And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

    Book   Games   Noon  
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”
  • [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

  • When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  • Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

    Writing   Years   Squad  
    "Jennifer Egan: 'I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.
  • Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

    Tattoo   Warrior   Artist  
  • Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.

    Stupid   Heart   Blue  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.135, Random House
  • I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

    Health   Years   Body  
  • I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

    Animal   Rooms   Bears  
  • I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

    "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.
  • There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

    Hero   Gay   Rights  
    "The Rage Is Not About Health Care". www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2010.
  • Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

    "Don't touch my junk" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.
  • Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

    Funny   People   Born  
    Spike Milligan (2014). “Puckoon”, p.48, Penguin UK
  • I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

    Book   Squad   Usual  
  • I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

    Art   Philosophy   Night  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

    Teaching   Thug   Six  
  • Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.

    "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.
  • Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

  • Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons, Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons. I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons, They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

    Rap   June   Air  
  • Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

    Dirty   Mean   Rocks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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