Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes

I am a firm believer in praxis, and I don’t have much time for the idea of the loner of genius who does everything all by himself. You need other people as well, at every level.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
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• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • People
  • Thought
  • Villain

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Movie
  • Years
  • First

• I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Speak
  • Creator
  • Pawn

• What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Energy

• Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Opinions
  • Go

• I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • People
  • Why
  • Support

• Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

  

  John Fleming
  • People
  • Business
  • Today

• I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Walking

• The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

  

  Jennifer Sky
  • Time
  • History
  • Sad

• I am a firm believer in praxis, and I don’t have much time for the idea of the loner of genius who does everything all by himself. You need other people as well, at every level.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
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