Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
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This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.
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Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.
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I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
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I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
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'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
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When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
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Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
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Just when you think that you thought that the guys in Billy Talent partied and did coke and had sex with all these hookers, we actually talk about architecture and, eh...history.
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There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.
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Art is literacy of the heart.
