Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
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We strivin' for perfection.
Raekwon -
If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
Vince Vaughn -
The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole -
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
Randy Alcorn -
If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
Taylor Schilling
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
Nathan Sawaya -
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
Cal Thomas -
For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
Kage Baker -
How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
Nazanin Boniadi -
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
T. J. Miller
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
Cameron Diaz -
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields -
I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
Gary Bettman -
My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
Daisy Ridley -
Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
Daniel Craig -
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
Carl Honore
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
Lady Gaga -
Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
Sam Heughan -
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
Abbi Jacobson -
I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
Ice T -
We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
Viktor Yushchenko -
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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