Charles Eisenstein Quotes
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Quotes to Explore
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
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The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
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Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
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There is much less drinking now than there was before 1927, because I quit drinking on May 24, 1927.
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Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.
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I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
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There’s no greater search than that of lost love.
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
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The workman still is greater than his work.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
