Nate Berkus Quotes
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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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 don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our achievements is profound and significant, and it's not just in robotics, it's also in the life-sciences research experiments that take place on board and other space-science experiments. I'd love to see Canada go from being a major spacefaring nation in low-Earth-orbit missions to those beyond, making sure we're part of those missions to Mars - not just from a technology perspective, but sending humans into beyond-Earth orbit.
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Small aim is a crime.
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
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If you're good at something, never do it for free.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
