Frei Otto Quotes
I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
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I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.
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I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
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I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.
