"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."

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Source : Alexandra Stoddard (2013). “Gracious Living in a New World: Finding Joy in Changing Times”, p.5, Harper Collins

Alexandra Stoddard

#Interesting Quotes #Joy Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.”
“I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.”
“Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.”
“I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”
“Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.”

Source : "Moshe Safdie: Global Citizen". worldarchitecture.org. November 21, 2013.
“Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.”
“Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly”

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