Enrique Penalosa Quotes
God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
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I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
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Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.
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I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
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Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
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I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
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God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
