Louis Kahn Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
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Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
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Napoleon has now surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
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Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
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I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention.
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The street is a room by agreement.
