Jaime Lerner Quotes
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
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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.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.
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If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
