Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
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I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
