Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
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I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
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Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
