Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Quotes to Explore
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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I can always go back to education.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
