Eli Siegel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
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You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
