Le Corbusier Quotes

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Alike

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Man
  • Society

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Science
  • Hate

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Earth
  • Learn
  • Human

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Future
  • Urban philosophy
  • Urban problems

• I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Personalities

• I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Children

• 'British Empire. First trip to India. Glorious. Never would have believed it would all be gone in my lifetime. Not possible, I’d’ve thought. I am the last king-emperor, you know. My brother was, for a time, but had to give it up. I didn’t'

  

  Edward VIII
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Life
  • House
  • City