Michael Eisner Quotes
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?
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He didn't look too good so we chose to err on the side of caution.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
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Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
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She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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I like to encourage people to give locally. It's easy to find and call a local no-kill shelter and see what specific things they need, and believe me, all of them are always in need of something.
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To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
