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 like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
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Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
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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.
