Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle) Quotes
I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
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People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.
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I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
