Eva Zeisel Quotes
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
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I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.
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I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
