Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'
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I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
