George Eastman Quotes

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

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• I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Never
  • Strange
  • Appreciated

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Power
  • Hope

• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  

  Xenophon
  • Everything
  • Fast
  • Accuracy

• Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Free
  • Take

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Country
  • Power

• I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Difference

• Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Journey

• I grew up performing in theatre.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Up
  • Theatre
  • Performing

• You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Country
  • Girl
  • City

• A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Culture
  • Tradition
  • Uplifting

• A lot of times people say, ‘You act like a grandmother, you’re just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • Say
  • Grandmother
  • Act

• Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Society
  • Class
  • Former

• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Air
  • Public
  • Fable

• You've got to somehow break ties, especially in such a short tournament. Obviously we don't like the way they break it down in this case.

  

  Paul Quantrill
  • Break
  • Case
  • Ties

• I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

  

  George Eastman
  • Public
  • Accept
  • Possibilities