Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
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I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
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I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
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If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
