Ernst Haas Quotes
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.

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I love Coco de Mer.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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We now live in an era where everybody is rich, and for some reason, everybody has a $20K bag. It is great to have those things, but I want the people who follow me to feel inspired and not jealous. Once you figure out your overall message, then you can push forward.
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Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
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What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
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I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Ain't Down Yet.' Well, I ain't.
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I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.
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You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.
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The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.
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When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.
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It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote.
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I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.
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Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
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You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.