Leo Tolstoy Quotes
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Quotes to Explore
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
