Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.
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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
