Helmut Jahn Quotes

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

Helmut Jahn

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ThinkWillEconomicSomedayApply

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Jim Cantalupo

MovingThinkYearYouPlaceClosing

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

Jessie J

DayPeopleWorldSongWeirdYou

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner

LifeArtExperienceDrawingWithout

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Stephen Dorff

WantWholeMovieEffects

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

Tom Tancredo

KnowledgeCourageFateDecideCivic

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Roger Ebert

HappyBe HappyYouYoungWayTell

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Michael McCaul

ThinkPlaceHandBecomeAttackBeen

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

Milo Yiannopoulos

FunnyPeopleFactsInterestingYou

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

YouKnowPayFictionOffBills

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

Douglas Adams

KnowWantMoreLittleThingsHalf

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Colin Trevorrow

MeYouMarketingGoWantDinosaur

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

Bret Stephens

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