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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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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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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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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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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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
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Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
