Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
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Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be something that I'm only 'sort of' into. I knew that 'The Stand' would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
