Benjamin Whorf Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
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People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
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The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
