Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Pretty
  • Fashion
  • Proud

• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Trigger
  • Ceiling

• 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.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• 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.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Challenge
  • Journey
  • Distance

• But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Believe
  • Universe

• The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Question
  • Answers

• Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Facts