Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
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I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
