Jaime Lerner Quotes
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
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In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
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There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
