Daphne Gottlieb Quotes

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

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• To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • World
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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
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• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
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• No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
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• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
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• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

  

  Gail Porter
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  • Cancer
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• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
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• When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

  

  Allan Hamilton
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• I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

  

  Ian McKeever
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• When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

  

  Leonor Varela
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• I have a tremendous platform and responsibility to talk to people about these issues about sustainability and about health and wellness when it comes to food.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
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  • Food
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• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
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• I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

  

  Daphne Gottlieb
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