Eero Saarinen Quotes
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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I never let my politics supersede my manners.
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I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
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A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
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My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.
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Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.
