Alvar Aalto Quotes
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
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I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
