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 try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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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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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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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 you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
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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.
