Nate Berkus Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I get homesick.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
