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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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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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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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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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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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
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Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
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I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'
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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
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I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
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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.
