Eli Quotes

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

You always learn lessons in business.

I don't like the feeling of losing.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

I'll always have a kid in me.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

We just have to go after our game plan.

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

I just want my sign and I want to throw it. I think it keeps everybody on their toes.

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

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When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.