Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Quotes to Explore
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.
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I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
