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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I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
