Eli Wallach Quotes
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.
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Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
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One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
