Eli Siegel Quotes
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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Social scientists have found that when confronted with either an enormous threat or a huge reward, people tend to focus on the magnitude of the consequence and ignore the probability.
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We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.
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When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you've done before.
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I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.
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I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
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I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
