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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality.
We're just human beings. In the end, you do your job. I do my job in the best way I can.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography — any of the arts — you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.
Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home'. Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in'.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand — not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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