Emilio Ambasz Quotes
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Justice is revenge.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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I find the business world hard.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I love bolos levedos. I literally can't have a bag of them in my house because I'll eat them all in an hour.
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A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
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If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.
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My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
