Walter Isaacson Quotes
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.Walter Isaacson
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
Oscar de la Renta -
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds -
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Wayne Dyer -
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Carine Roitfeld
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You should seek approval from yourself.
Ichiro Suzuki -
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
Oscar Isaac -
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.
Yvonne Strahovski -
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Barry Ritholtz
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
Hank Azaria -
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!
Abraham Polonsky -
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.
Rachel Boston -
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell -
There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.
Chrysippus -
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.
Annette Funicello -
I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
Edie Falco -
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards -
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.
Albert Einstein -
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson