Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum) Quotes
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels firming. I rarely wear foundation, so cotton wool soaked in warm water is often enough to cleanse at night, but I take off eye make-up with Klorane's cornflower-infused remover.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
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I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.
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Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.
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The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
