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.
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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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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
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To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
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They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.
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Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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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.
