Elsa Peretti Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
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Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.
