Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
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In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.
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A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?
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Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
