Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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.
Edgardo Osorio -
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.
Walter Isaacson -
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.
Walter Gropius -
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith -
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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Rafael Nadal -
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.
Jack LaLanne -
Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
Hamish Bowles -
I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
Larry David -
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.
Adam D'Angelo -
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.
Camilo Jose Cela
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones -
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.
Randy Harrison -
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.
Zaha Hadid -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
Randy Houser -
Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
Rachel Nichols -
If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
Nader al-Masri -
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Og Mandino -
Cake is a very beautiful thing.
Milly Shapiro -
It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne