Leon Krier Quotes

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Leon Krier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 7, 1946

Topics

ArchitecturePlanningBetterNew

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

John Lasseter

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So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

Robert Krulwich

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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

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Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career.

Michael Cohl

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When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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I'm not wrestling anymore. I'm out of that part of my career.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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The support down here in Rio has been amazing - between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg's, I've felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.

Simone Biles

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I mow my own lawn.

Ron Reagan

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I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

Luke Rockhold

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By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

Christopher Walken

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When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.

Christie Brinkley

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