Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started getting lead roles in films like 'Bobby Jasoos.'
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.
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Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
