Le Corbusier Quotes
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
