Nate Berkus Quotes

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
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• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  

  Zac Efron
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• If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.

  

  Diplo
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• I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain.

  

  Apollo Robbins

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
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• I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.

  

  Andy Garcia
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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
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