Eda LeShan Quotes
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.
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I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection only occasionally.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.
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Jo, his wife, remarked on Hopper's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950: 'It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash'. Then Edward Hopper reacted: 'did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window'.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure.
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.
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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
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I am not a sex symbol.
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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
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Sex is something we are, not something we do.
