Alvar Aalto Quotes

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Alvar Aalto

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976

Topics

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But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

Jim Coleman

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The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

John Marshall

LifeFamilyMy LifeWorthPerson

I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.

Jeff Nichols

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It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

Srikumar Rao

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Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

Rob Lowe

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We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Mitch Daniels

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All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

Jay Griffiths

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I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Jonny Greenwood

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Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

Jonah Goldberg

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We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

Christie Hefner

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I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.

Armaan Malik

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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Sylvia Plath

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