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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When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.
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Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
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The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.
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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.
