Adolf Loos Quotes
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
