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"OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him."
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"I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read."
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"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget."
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"When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is."
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"I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle."
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"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."
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"I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now."
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"There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly."
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"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."
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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."
Design
"It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots."
Community
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
Curiosity
"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."
Being
"I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January."
Future
"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."
Relationship
"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."
Appreciation
"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
Home
"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."
Design
"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
People
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