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've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
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I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.
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For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.
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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.
