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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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
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In Sweeden every city looks the same. I've been to sixteen cities, and every single city is the same! The same cobblestone, the same McDonalds, the same everything. Everything was designed by the same guy. They must have saved a lot of money when they designed all the cities.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
