Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I want to win football games.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.
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In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you'll be met with whiteness.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
