Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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War is over if you want it.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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We're just like a regular family.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
