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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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
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[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.
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See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.
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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.
