Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Brother
  • Baltimore
  • Mayor

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Universe
  • Passion
  • Force

• I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Know
  • Open

• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Model
  • Musicians

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Favourite

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Book
  • Government
  • Religion

• I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

  

  Carla Hall
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistakes

• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Heart
  • Doing
  • Choice

• The world is as it should be.

  

  Omar Epps
  • World
  • Should

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Man
  • City
  • Trump

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• I see what keeps people young: work!

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

  

  William Feather
  • Life
  • Men
  • Positive

• I'm just thrilled they're going to name it after her. She was a wonderful woman and I'm glad she's getting some of the recognition she deserves.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • She
  • Woman
  • Wonderful

• He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Socrates

• Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Reflection
  • Enthusiasm
  • Relapsing

• You're so privileged to be there, you feel like you have to complain about something just so you don't have to think about how lucky you are. It's kind of over compensation, I think, when I'm feeling generous about it. Or, when I'm not, I think maybe it's just the basic requirement of being a teenager, feeling like you have to be perfect every time, and when you have an algebra test or a hangnail, the rest of the war-torn, poverty-stricken, deformed world ought to turn its attention to you.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Generous

• You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Wonderful
  • Buildings
  • Towns