Arne Jacobsen Quotes
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.Arne Jacobsen
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer -
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
Rafik Hariri -
It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
Campbell Newman -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
Carly Fiorina
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance -
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker -
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
Fisher Stevens -
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Yahoo Serious -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane -
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
Ada Yonath -
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke
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The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.
Yair Lapid -
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich -
I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'
Ashley Graham -
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Aldous Huxley -
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
Gary W. Keller -
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen