Flann O'Brien Quotes
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
Edmonia Lewis -
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Naomi Campbell -
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
A. James Clark -
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
Camille Paglia -
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando -
Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
Federica Mogherini
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We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?
Kanye West -
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Pierre Corneille
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
Muhammad Ali -
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
William Cowper -
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke Nazareth -
There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."
Francis Bacon -
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.
W. Daniel Hillis -
We all live in a world where we can go to a funeral in the morning and go to a wedding in the evening and we survive it. It's the way the world is built, especially when you look at the various people surrounding the Mediterranean way of life.
Eran Riklis -
Rome wasn't built in A.D.
Flann O'Brien