Daphne Merkin Quotes
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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There's no fear when you're having fun.
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My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
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She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.
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Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
