Anni Albers Quotes
And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
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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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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
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That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
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I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
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I follow fashion trends.
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I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.
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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
