Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.Oscar Niemeyer
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
Tamar Braxton -
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson -
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
Pat Metheny
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
Gail Collins -
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira -
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein -
I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
Ram Charan -
You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
Barbara Lynn -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman -
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
Damian Lewis -
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
Victoria Clark
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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
Parker Posey -
I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.
John Ortberg -
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
Jeanne Moreau -
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
Oscar Niemeyer