Charles Eisenstein Quotes

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

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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.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Actors

• There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Body
  • Mountain

• Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Forget
  • Umbrellas

• 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.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Pessimism
  • Formation
  • Renounce

• There is much less drinking now than there was before 1927, because I quit drinking on May 24, 1927.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Drinking
  • Now
  • Quit

• Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Fantasy
  • Documentaries
  • Hyper

• 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.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Intention
  • Mouths
  • Tricks

• My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Successful
  • Champion
  • Crap

• There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Calm
  • Harmony
  • Exciting

• There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

  

  Steve Daines
  • Government
  • Opportunities
  • Citizens

• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
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