Frei Otto Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.
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The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
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It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
