Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
