Walter Gropius Quotes

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Important
  • Start

• You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Water
  • Falling

• I hate the domestic life.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Domestic

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• I love listening to pop radio.

  

  Washed Out
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Radio

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Living

• I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Building
  • Prove
  • Labor

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Love
  • Church
  • Movies

• I'm a television junkie.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Television

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Work
  • Food
  • Environment

• I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Work
  • Live

• When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • People
  • Political
  • Color

• The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Mistake
  • Period

• Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • World
  • Water

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning