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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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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Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!
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As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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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.
