Deborah Needleman Quotes
Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.
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I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
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I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
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Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
