Adolf Loos Quotes
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
