Leon Krier Quotes
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
