Alvar Aalto Quotes
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Quotes to Explore
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I've got a long-term plan.
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Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.
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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
