Richard Morris Hunt Quotes
The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
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You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
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The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.
