Eli Siegel Quotes
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
Quotes to Explore
-
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
-
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
-
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
-
Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
-
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
-
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
-
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
-
I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
-
I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.
-
My family were pretty big hippies.
-
I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
-
I don't like when I look too cluttered.
-
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
-
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
-
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
-
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.
-
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
-
Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
-
I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.
-
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
-
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
