Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.Oscar Niemeyer
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
Naftali Bennett -
If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake -
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
Cara Delevingne -
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
Tamala Jones -
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
Karen O -
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
Adam McKay
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
Yolanda Adams -
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Daniel Bell -
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra -
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
Oliver Platt -
Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
Sam Altman -
Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
Pat Buchanan
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
Tanith Lee -
I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
Venus Williams -
[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
Cleopatra -
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
Josh Turner -
I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.
Freema Agyeman -
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.
Oscar Niemeyer