Jaime Lerner Quotes
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.
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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.
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If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
