Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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A photograph can express silence.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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When you say your prayers try to understand
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I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
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When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.
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I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
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One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
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Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
