Adolf Loos Quotes
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
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I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
