Benjamin Whorf Quotes

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

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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.

  

  Sam Shepard
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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.

  

  Camila Alves
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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.

  

  Gail Collins
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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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

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• The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

  

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• For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

  

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• I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
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• You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

  

  Joe Morton
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• We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
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• Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

  

  Benjamin Whorf
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