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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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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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.
Chaka Fattah -
The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he's got protection down the field on his slides.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
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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.
