Walter Isaacson Quotes
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.Walter Isaacson
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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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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Cinema is incredibly concise.
Yann Martel -
The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.
DJ Qualls -
Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson