Nate Berkus Quotes
I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
