Daniel Burnham Quotes
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.Daniel Burnham
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Tea Obreht -
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson -
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa -
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano -
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden -
Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
Zhang Yin
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
Eddie Perez -
I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
Kate Moss -
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
Samantha Bond -
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
C. L. R. James -
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
Ted Cruz -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl Abraham -
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
W. G. Sebald
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Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.
Duncan Jones -
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Karl Marx -
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
J. P. Morgan -
We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.
Liam Fox -
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
Daniel Burnham