Eben Alexander Quotes

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• When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Know

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Like
  • Need
  • Extraordinary

• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • China
  • Communist

• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Food

• And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebookBecause my hand thinks I'm an artistBut my heart knows I'm a poetIt's just words they mean so little to me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Hand

• I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.

  

  Billy Burke
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Simple
  • Style

• Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Forgiveness

• Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • People
  • Complaining

• New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

  

  John Key
  • Up
  • World
  • Risk

• Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward-pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

  

  Philip K. Dick

• Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

  

  Melina Mercouri

• You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Brains
  • George
  • Brass

• Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we have no notion about whatsoever, no awareness of at all?

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Life
  • Creature
  • Neighborhood

• When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Writer
  • Recognized
  • Emmy

• I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Up
  • Against
  • Progressive

• We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

  

  Eben Alexander
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