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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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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So little of what could happen does happen.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
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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.
