Arthur Erickson Quotes
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.
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I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
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Armies are not only for offensives.
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I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
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There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.
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Don't hide things from the fans, because they will find them, and they will not be your fan anymore. I've seen that happen with many artists.
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In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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I went to a fancy dress party as a punk. I went through a stage of being a wannabe punk from the '70s. So, my next-door neighbours were like hardcore punks and I went to see The Vibrators and came home with a T-shirt that said "The Vibrators". My mum said: "You're not going out in that!" But I was really into it. I did soon grow out of it. But that's probably the most embarrassing story I have. I really am just quite normal.
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
