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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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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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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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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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 want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
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In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write it, I help produce it, I cut the person's vocals. I'm involved from the beginning to the end of a song. I'm not just giving someone a beat, you know?
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I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and exercise. I relax by watching silly sitcoms like 'Scrubs' and 'How I Met Your Mother.'
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I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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.'
