Eli Siegel Quotes

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

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• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Mind
  • Real
  • American

• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Care
  • Laws

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• 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
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• 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
  • Kind
  • Day
  • Find

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• 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
  • People
  • Media
  • Interviews

• 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
  • People
  • Focus
  • Ignore

• 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
  • Believe
  • Power
  • American

• When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you've done before.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Done

• 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.

  

  James Adomian
  • Country
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Up

• It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Sleep

• It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Trying

• Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Work
  • Great
  • Practice

• I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Paradoxical
  • Surrenders

• It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went in with. I made a couple of mistakes, I will honestly admit. In retrospect, there are a few votes I wish I could take back. But, through it all, I kept my support for organized labor, I kept my support for income equality, I kept my support for making sure that kids that come from poor families have access to education. So, yes, I still believe that you don't have to give up your ideals and go along. One person can still stand up and make a difference.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Giving

• Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

  

  Pele
  • Work
  • Business

• If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Mistake
  • Stone