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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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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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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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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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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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.
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Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
