quotes about Birkenstocks

last updated: November 28, 2023

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
-- Nancy Lublin

Source : "Leadership to the Rescue" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
-- Rachel Zoe

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“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”

Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
“England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.”
“The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.”
“Blitz chess kills your ideas.”
“People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.”
“You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.”
“It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.”
“I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as well and have some sense of marketing acumen. I think the key is to be good enough at it that it doesn't overwhelm your aesthetic interests, but have just enough that you make smart decisions.”
“For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.”
“Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth.”