Eva Zeisel Quotes
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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The playful search for beauty.
