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 never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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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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Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.
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As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.
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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.
