Enrique Penalosa Quotes

The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

Enrique Penalosa

• Happiness
• Friendship
• Measured
• Examples
• Public Space

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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Space

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.

  

  Edward Witten

• Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Moments

• I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.

  

  Khalid
  • Up

• Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

  

  Socrates
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Unrepented

• I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.

  

  Shawn Mendes

• She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist’s conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mad
  • Back
  • Impression

• The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Happiness
  • Friendship
  • Measured