Eli Siegel Quotes
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.
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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.
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Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
