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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
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The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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Even though you're filming something and it's all scripted, there's still a sense of ritual about it because you're filming a ritual. It has all these little details that you want to capture, and a very specific mood and tone.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
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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.
