Eli Siegel Quotes
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Eli Siegel
Quotes to Explore
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace
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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.
Laura Osnes
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
Danica McKellar
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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.
Adam Carolla
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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.
Harold Pinter
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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.
H. R. Giger
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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.
Zahi Hawass
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
T. C. Boyle
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
M. C. Escher
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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.
Al Gore
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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An impressive thing about India is the way in which it has almost as many Muslim citizens, who live with greater prospects of peace and prosperity, as does Pakistan. This comity and integration is one of the many targets of the suicide killers, and it is another reason why firm, warm solidarity with India is the most pressing need of the present hour.
Christopher Hitchens
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.
Mike Harding
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I feel many problems that we are facing, are man-made problems, we have too much emphasis on this secondary thing, forgetting our foundation. At foundation, we are the same human being and we are sharing the same planet. Six billion human beings' future is my future and my future is never separate from the future of six billion human beings.
Dalai Lama
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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
Edwidge Danticat
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Eli Siegel