Nate Berkus Quotes
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
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People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
