Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Quotes to Explore
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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My father had very little formal education.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
