Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Change is not an event, it's a process.
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Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
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Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
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In my beginning is my end.
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
