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Walter Isaacson Quotes

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 20, 1952

Topics

Amazing You Human Write Something

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Passion World Think Poverty Want

I could never lie to someone to benefit myself, so telemarketing was something I was terrible at!

Jermaine Fowler

Myself Lie Someone Never Something

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

School Play Actor Different Batman

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

Stephen Gardiner

Man Circle Legs Center Ancient Arms

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

Sidney Sheinberg

Work Stars Business Respect People

Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Fear People Evil Data Information

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

Mother Perspective Wife Brother City

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

Imagination Words Down More Human

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Take Something Object Else

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

People Forget Extraordinary Naked

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

Deepika Padukone

Trust Believe Comfortable Chemistry

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Love Music Country Done Singer Pop

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