Arne Jacobsen Quotes
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Research the leaders in fields related to yours, synthesize their findings, and see how you can apply their hard-won wisdom to your work. Stand on their shoulders, and then make a leap into new territory that is distinctly yours.
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The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
