Frei Otto Quotes
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
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If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
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Every game he just makes so many outstanding plays for us. Not only with his runs, but with his pass receiving. He is our work horse and we are going to keep feeding him.
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They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
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My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
