Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso -
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
Karin Slaughter
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
Jacky Ickx -
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
Viggo Mortensen -
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Felix Frankfurter -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
Sam Kean -
I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
Nadine Velazquez -
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
Ina Garten -
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
Sam Farr
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie -
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde -
Our band doesn't like pressure or timelines. We like to be in a casual environment where everyone is happy with their surroundings. It's not like being in Brooklyn - if you're somewhere beautiful like upstate, you can walk outside to take a moment. It's a big part of our functioning.
Daniel Rossen -
If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.
Michelle Shocked -
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Form follows beauty.
Oscar Niemeyer