Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Minoru Yamasaki

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• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Giving
  • Reading

• Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Green

• Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolderThan you used to be.So you used to shake 'em down,But now you stop and think about your dignity.So now sweet sixteen's turned thirty-one,You get to feelin' weary when the work days done.Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks.If you're in a fix.Come back baby,Rock and roll never forgets.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Kids
  • Grunge

• I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

  

  David Storey
  • People
  • Football

• Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Support

• I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Growth

• I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Death
  • My Heart
  • Flung

• The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • God
  • Help
  • Serious

• I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration

• And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Environment