Bernard Berenson Quotes
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
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I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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Yet that is the most splendid privilege of man, that the true birthright of the human Spirit, to know his own Divinity, and then to realise it, to know his own Divinity and then to manifest it.
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Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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Nobody can be a clairvoyant.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
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My whole life, I've been telling jokes.
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
