Vasyl Lomachenko Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
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I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
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I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
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My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
