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.
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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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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
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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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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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A low budget is uncomfortable.
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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.
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In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.
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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.
