Eli Wallach Quotes

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

Eli Wallach

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• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Love
  • New York
  • London

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Special

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Success
  • Successful

• We do not need the empire to give us anything.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Need
  • Give
  • Empire

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Me
  • Insults
  • Hail

• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Love
  • Best
  • Sweet

• Each song has its own life.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Song
  • Own

• I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Love
  • Art

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • School
  • Leaving

• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Know
  • Nice

• The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?

  

  John Templeton
  • Why
  • America
  • Focus

• Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Force
  • Novels

• Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • True

• Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • World

• For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

  

  Bridget Riley
  • Nature

• I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

  

  Eli Wallach