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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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
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And that's the truth!
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The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
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When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
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Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
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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.
