Walter Gropius Quotes
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.Walter Gropius
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
Becky G -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil Smith
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
Sam Hunt -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius -
No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
Kate Moss -
Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
Hamish Bowles -
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Lady Gregory
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
Van Morrison -
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Mackenzie Davis -
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot -
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
Rainn Wilson
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
Rachel Kushner -
I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.
Jill Sobule -
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
John McGahern -
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
James Cromwell -
This stone is flawless F1 I keep shooters up top in the F1
Nicki Minaj -
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius