David Whyte Quotes
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
