Arthur Frommer Quotes

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Arthur Frommer

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• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

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• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.

  

  Carla Hall
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• Dancing is a beautiful thing.

  

  J. R. Martinez
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• The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

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• In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
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• What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

  

  Ian McShane
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• Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I've heard on the news that they are thinking of putting microchips inside babies so that if they ever get kidnapped that you can track them on Google. But what if technology fails? Well here is my solution: next to the microchip, put a fucking detonator. Listen, if I can't have my baby, nobody can!!!

  

  Dane Cook
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• It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
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• How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  

  Denis Diderot
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• I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

  

  Joe Morgan
  • Home
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• I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

  

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  • Collection
  • Industrial

• I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

  

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• I'd worn Joe's Jeans since I was young, so it was cool to be able to reinvent the brand and be able to be part of it.

  

  Bella Hadid
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• I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

  

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  • Life
  • Time
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• The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.

  

  Lele Pons
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • English

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

  

  Arthur Frommer
  • Country
  • Depressed
  • Dictatorial