Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
