"If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint."

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Source : "Brooke Astor, 105, First Lady of Philanthropy, Dies" by Marilyn Berger, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2007.

Brooke Astor

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Jewelry Quotes

“There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I want to leave a souvenir of my life.”
“Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, 'The eye of the beholder', 1990.
“Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.”
“Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.”
“What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.”

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“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”
“Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.”

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