Michael Eisner Quotes
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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I try to keep an even keel.
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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'The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
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The nature of fashion is family.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
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Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.
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We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
