Alvar Aalto Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
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I would advise sitting from morning till night under some willow bush on the river bank where there is a wide view. This will be 'doing the valley' far more effectively than riding along trails in constant motion from point to point. The entire valley is made up of 'points of interest.'
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Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
