Alvar Aalto Quotes
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.
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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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When I learned about Airbnb, I was like, 'Wow, this is an amazing, new way to travel; it's about community, and there's a lot to figure out to clear the way,' so I was really drawn to that.
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
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The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
