Candice Olson Quotes
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
Quotes to Explore
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
