Moshe Safdie Quotes

Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates.

Moshe Safdie

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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Jim Yong Kim

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It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

Joely Richardson

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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

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We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.

Amitava Kumar

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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Stefan Zweig

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There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

Stewart Butterfield

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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Charles Winthrop

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I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Roger Penrose

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Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Joni Mitchell

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Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

Deeyah Khan

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