Eva Zeisel Quotes
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.
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The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.
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I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.
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When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
