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.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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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.
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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.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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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.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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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.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives-or at least more balanced lives.
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The theater is magical and addictive.
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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
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When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
