Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
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But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
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I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'
