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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Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
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Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
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I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.
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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.
