Barbara Chase-Riboud Quotes
I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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The truth can both lift up and knock down.
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Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
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Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
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So the universe will continue to expand forever, and the galaxies will get farther and farther apart, and things will just die. That’s the way it is. It doesn't matter whether I feel lonely about it or not.
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People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
