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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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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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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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.
