Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there.
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Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
