Eli Wallach Quotes

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • God
  • Mess

• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Military

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Father
  • North Carolina

• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Up
  • American
  • Wanted

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Art
  • Power

• He was all iron outside, but all father within.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Father
  • Iron

• I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Women

• Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

  

  Eli Wallach
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  • Evil
  • Hurt