"About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character theyâ€™re meant to have by really being used. â€¦ when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that theyâ€™ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though theyâ€™re untouchable."

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Source : "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, February 8, 2011.

Nate Berkus

#Character Quotes #Imperfection Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.”
“Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”
“I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari. "Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly. "We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?" "Don't trouble yourself.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2005). “Skybreaker”, HarperCollins
“Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.”

Source : Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.8, Penguin
“There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
“Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.”

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