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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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
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I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
