Eli Wallach Quotes
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
