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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Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.
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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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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
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I feel lucky guy Tomorrow when all things are shapin' Tomorrow then I'll be with you Tomorrow when your heart is achin' I'll keep on lovin' you.
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I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
