Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
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Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
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Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.
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Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
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I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
