Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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The world is always in movement.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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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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Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
