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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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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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.
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Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Those who stay will be champions
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
