Edmund de Waal Quotes
The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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If the atoms in a decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.
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I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
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The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
