Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Jesse Eisenberg

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• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Up
  • World
  • Internet

• If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Father
  • Car

• There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Experience
  • Said
  • Old

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Performance
  • Market
  • Satisfied

• Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Hate

• 'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• I'll show you some security and I'll show you some peace: Nagasaki and Hiroshima. You fuck with us and we'll fucking melt you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Peace

• The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Great
  • Sky
  • Contentment

• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I always get less nervous when we get into rehearsals because it just gives me a better idea of how it's gonna go.

  

  Maren Morris

• I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

  

  Philip Emeagwali

• 'Coexist' was tough to make.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Make
  • Tough
  • Coexist

• I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Athlete

• It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Darkness
  • Simplicity

• I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg