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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I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
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Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
