Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
Quotes to Explore
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I got a big mouth.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Freedom is not a natural disposition, but God's precious gift to man. Those in whom viciousness becomes second-nature, those in whom brutality is linked with haughtiness, forfeit their ability and therefore their right to receive that gift. Hardening of the heart is the suspension of freedom.
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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
