Nate Berkus Quotes
I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.
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When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
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At the same time, we’ll engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals, and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands - because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead and meet our obligations.
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I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
