Le Corbusier Quotes
The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
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I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it.... I'm tired.
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If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
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The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.
