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 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 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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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
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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.
