Amanda Eliasch Quotes

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Amanda Eliasch

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Science
  • Internet
  • Modern

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Realize
  • Arms

• The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Business
  • Small
  • Name

• Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Seen

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Seems
  • Ambitious
  • Tone

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Time
  • Character
  • Star

• I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Music
  • Player
  • Piano

• There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Family
  • May
  • Food

• The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • Society
  • Purpose

• There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Purple

• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Free
  • Small
  • City

• I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone.

  

  Gennifer Flowers
  • Model

• I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Communication
  • Photography
  • Economics

• I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Actor

• Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

  

  Amanda Eliasch