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 always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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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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Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
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To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.
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It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
