Michael Hansmeyer Quotes
There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.
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Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders to most of the songs I've written. It would be cool to release it as a book one day!
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
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There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
