Daniel Burnham Quotes
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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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.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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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.
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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.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
