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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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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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier.
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
