Bernard Berenson Quotes
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
Quotes to Explore
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.
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Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
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The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
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When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
