Elizabeth Diller Quotes

We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.

Elizabeth Diller

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• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Serious
  • Potential
  • Medical

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!

  

  Venus Williams
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Food

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Evening

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Bored

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • School
  • Done

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Women
  • Today

• When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Space
  • Water
  • Fly

• Lots of folks still do watch TV, but I think understanding the future of politics means understanding where folks' attention is being paid and delivering your message and your ideas in that space.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Future
  • Attention
  • Space

• Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

  

  Charlie Hunter
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Space

• If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

  

  Quintilian
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Space