Nan Kempner Quotes
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.
