Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
