Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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There is a reason for everything.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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I say college football began with Rockne.
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It is also a study peculiarly adapted to an early stage in the education of philosophical students, since it does not presuppose the slow process of acquiring, by experience and reflection, valuable thoughts of their own.
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The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
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The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
