Jaime Lerner Quotes
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I still keep my accent.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.
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I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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Sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.
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The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
