Alan Bersin Quotes

Alan Bersin

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• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • You
  • Say
  • Rather

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Management

• I write a world where everyone is partly right.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Everyone
  • Where

• My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Projects

• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Self
  • Anything
  • Serve

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Bad

• In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • American

• There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Dream

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Future
  • Education

• Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Game

• When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne

• I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • High

• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Team

• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Logic
  • Plain
  • Theorists

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Nature
  • Hope

• My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.

  

  Adrian Piper
  • Important
  • Hands
  • Communication

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