Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.
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We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.
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The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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Growing up, I was told I could be anything I wanted to be. There were no limitations restraining me just because I was a girl. Then I joined the military.
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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
