Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
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If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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Money means better meals at better places.
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Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.
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A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
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I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Tradition is a challenge to innovation.
