Walter Gropius Quotes
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
