Nathan Sawaya Quotes
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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Time stays, we go.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
