Eli Wallach Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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The world is always terrible.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
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Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.
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I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.
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My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
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I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
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I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
