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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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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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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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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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.
