Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Alvaro Siza Vieira

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• I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Remember
  • War
  • Fear

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• 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.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Makeup

• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Easy

• Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Text

• 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.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Cute
  • Cheer

• 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.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Prayer

• Money means better meals at better places.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Money

• Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Good
  • God
  • Pretty

• 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!

  

  Rita Ora
  • Life

• I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Business
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Great
  • School
  • Positive

• Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Up
  • Small
  • Challenge

• You got a snaggletooth? Show it off. You have an overbite? Bite some more.

  

  Phoebe Robinson

• In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

  

  Jim McGovern

• What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Truth

• The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Work

• Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Challenge
  • Innovation
  • Tradition