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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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
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Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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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.
