Jaime Lerner Quotes

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Jaime Lerner

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• There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Spiritual

• My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Remember
  • Victory

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Company

• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Law

• I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Ignore

• 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• I don't think everything has to be new all the time. You don't have to have the latest designer all the time to look good. Just have things you're comfortable with, have key pieces that you can sort of reinvent over and over again, and always keep things that you really love for a while.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Time
  • Good

• Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Integrity

• The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • City
  • Design