"I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty."

-- Mireille Guiliano

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“Peak performance is meditation in motion.”
“When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.”
“I think I've had to work my entire life at reacting to bad news, 'cause my first tendency whenever bad news comes is to pretend like it's not that bad somehow. And, you know, if you can do that with your parents being executed, you can do that with almost anything.”
“Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.”
“You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.”
“So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.”
“The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.”

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