Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • People
  • Feel
  • Better

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Computers

• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Bitter
  • Sour

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Prize
  • Honoured
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Character

• Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Death
  • Rock

• In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

  

  Charles Evans Hughes
  • Time
  • Law

• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Spirit

• I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
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