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'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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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I love girl power.
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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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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.
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I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.
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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.
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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.
