Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
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Fundamentals make the market.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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I was trying my best to calm everybody down, because we're going to make mistakes. We've just got to be a little bit smarter with the ball.
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Behold, I make all things new.
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There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.
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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
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The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.
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Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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Each material is only what we make it.
