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.
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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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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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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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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
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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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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
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Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
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I tend to look for a great script.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.
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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.
