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"Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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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
"We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything."
Time
"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
"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."
Design
"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
"There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different."
Difference
"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
Design
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