Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.
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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
