Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
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That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.
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I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
