Eli Siegel Quotes

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Eli Siegel

• Personality
• Individuality
• Concealment
• Repellent

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Science
  • Light
  • Reading

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • Friend
  • Best

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Me
  • Gets
  • Outdoors

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Fair

• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Garden

• In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Play
  • Grandmother
  • Ingenue

• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Character
  • American

• I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Power
  • Revenge

• Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life

• Good enough never is.

  

  Debbi Fields
  • Good

• I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Personality

• I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

  

  Lou Brock
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Personality
  • Individuality
  • Concealment