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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
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Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
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My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
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