Walter Gropius Quotes
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
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We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
