Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.
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Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I can't believe, even in 'The Guardian,' people ask the questions, 'Where did ISIS come from?' 'How did this happen?' 'Why do young Muslim women go off to join them?' Maybe because we've been degrading their people since 1917. Maybe their teenage years are a little bit more stressed than that of Christianity.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
