Elsa Peretti Quotes
Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.Elsa Peretti
Quotes to Explore
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit -
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
Hank Johnson -
Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
Adam Draper -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans -
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
Garrett Graff -
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter -
I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
Danica McKellar -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Young Jeezy
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
Nan Hayworth -
The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
Edmund Phelps -
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E. W. Howe -
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
Jacob Dalton -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.
Phil Mickelson -
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber -
As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.
Laurie Hernandez -
Is the cinema more important than life?
Francois Truffaut -
After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.
Uwem Akpan -
Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
Elsa Peretti