Action Quotes

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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

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Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

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Form follows beauty.

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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

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Architecture is invention.

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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content ...more

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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve hum...more

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

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I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors ou...more

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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

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Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, th...more

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I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citize...more

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.