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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All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.
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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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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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In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
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I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
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Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
