Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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Can a book carry you into the world you have to pretend doesn't exist most of the time, can a book carry you back out into what first made you alive.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'
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If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.
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We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
