Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
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I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
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I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
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Do not discuss God and his reason, does not discuss the motherland and the nation.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
