Walter Isaacson Quotes
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.
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Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
