Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.Elliot W. Eisner
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
Inbee Park -
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.
Barbara Mandrell -
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.
A. J. Liebling -
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.
Gavin MacLeod -
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.
Harold Pinter -
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
Calvin Johnson
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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.
Vic Snyder -
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.
Naveen Jain -
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton -
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Otto Schily -
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.
Federico Fellini
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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.
Aaron Sorkin -
The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
Larry Holmes -
When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
LaMarr Woodley -
It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
Olly Murs -
If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
Kat Graham -
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jack Wagner
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
Hans Haacke -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
Kathy Bates -
I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
Elliot W. Eisner