Eric Maisel Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.
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You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
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I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
