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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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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The materials shape your idea.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Letting the banks go bust instead of perpetually bailing them out is the right way to go.Iceland Did It Right; All others are doing it wrong.
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Each material is only what we make it.
