Elsa Peretti Quotes
I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

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The world is always in movement.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
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We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.
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I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.