Nate Berkus Quotes
Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
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I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
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The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.
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I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
