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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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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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.
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I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
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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.
