Elisa Kreisinger Quotes

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

Elisa Kreisinger

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• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Game
  • Chess
  • Practical

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • You
  • Always
  • Without

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Economy
  • Finding
  • Sharing

• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Dad

• Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • History
  • Hurt
  • Patriotism

• When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Feel
  • Diversity
  • Annoyed

• We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Voice
  • Artists
  • Babies

• I never think about anybody. I let them think about me.

  

  Wyomia Tyus
  • Anybody

• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Ideas
  • Ocean
  • Found

• The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

  

  Elisa Kreisinger
  • Ideas
  • Images
  • Filmmaking