Eva Zeisel Quotes
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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I regret all of my books.
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I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
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The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.
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I'm happy to work in Malayalam.
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I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.
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I can say with some confidence that President Zardari's legacy will be written in golden words. I don't say this as his son, or patron-and-chief of the Pakistan People's Party - but as a student of history.
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I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
