Eliot Spitzer Quotes
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
