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Helmut Jahn Quotes

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: german
Birth: January 4, 1940

Topics

Today America Wonder Place Here

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Father Community Money Men Brother

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

You Years Cancer Many Few Months

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

Red Boston Red Sox Fan Avid Sox

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

Life You Go Ahead Real Real Life

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.

Robert Jay Lifton

People You Create Kind First Study

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

Finding Look Knowing Right Resources

I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.

World Think Thinking Reach Important

In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

Name Buildings Smoke Office Outside

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Sophie Swetchine

Perseverance Power Time End Silent

I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

Good Roads I Am Free Believe Wealth

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Sigourney Weaver

I Am Person Without Out Purse Who

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

Nature Time Whatever Begin Motion

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