T. S. Eliot Quotes

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

T. S. Eliot

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• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

  

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• I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

  

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• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

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• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

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• I love recording music.

  

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• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
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• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

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• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

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• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

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• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

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• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

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• I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

  

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• When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

  

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• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

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• Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

  

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• 'Not safe?' I asked, all innocence. 'Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.'

  

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• The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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• It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

  

  Pauline Phillips
  • True
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• Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
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• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading