Walter Gropius Quotes
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.
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Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
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I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.
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The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.
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There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
