Alvaro Siza Vieira Quotes
The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
Sam Graves
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
Barry Diller
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Ferdowsi
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
Feist
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
Larry David
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
Pat Robertson
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No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
Octavia Spencer
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
Xavi
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Be black, shine, aim high.
Leontyne Price
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I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Plato
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
Carl Magnusson
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The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
