Harry Seidler Quotes
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.
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After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
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It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
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From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
