Eli Wallach Quotes
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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quoting her producer 'The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it.' I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!!
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'Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards'.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.
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I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.
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Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
