Bjarke Ingels Quotes
Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I'm kind of a recluse.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.
