Bernard Berenson Quotes
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
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Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
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Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place where people could fall asleep.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
