Moshe Safdie Quotes
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.
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It is not the biographer's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
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I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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So many girls second-think their pose or what they're doing. And, in turn, the photos will come out really unnatural. I say to really give the camera a performance - that, and make sure you're comfortable with how you look, and give it a good smile and a filter.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
