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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I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
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The competition is a big part of it racing - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
