Jaime Lerner Quotes
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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I love women.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.
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I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
