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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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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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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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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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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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
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If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
