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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969

Topics

Architecture Facts Real Activity

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

John Mellencamp

Funny Mind Writing Opinions Try

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

Relationship Government Defense About

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

War World Believe First Peak Genre

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

Work Great Best Work Hard Blessed

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Home Time Day Step Building You

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.

Douglas Rushkoff

History Moment Networking Better

There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.

Wealth Sharks Way Oil Unions Mexico

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

Football Baseball Growing Up Growing

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

Suzanne Farrell

Discipline Sit Note Still Instrument

I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?

Work Fight Space Fashion Forward

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

Kumail Nanjiani

Better Doing Nobody Pretending Just

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

God Character Faith Courage Day

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