William Krisel Quotes
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.
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Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
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I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
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I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
