Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
Karin Slaughter
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
Larry Wall
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Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
Nancy Cartwright
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Arthur Eddington
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Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.
Connie Willis
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My body and my will are one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.
Jess Walter
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Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.
John Knoll
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
Mark Zandi
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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
David Harvey
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
