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Frei Otto Quotes

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: german
Birth: May 31, 1925 - March 9, 2015

Topics

Nature Future Architecture Man Think

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Community Survive Will Wildlife Up

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

Myself People Me Someone Acting

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Ideas New Old New Ideas Difficulty

I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.

Time Wife Think Seen Books Most

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

Life Family Myself Identity Parents

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

Education Mother Day Amazing World

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Money Competition Baseball Survival

It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

Art Practice Space Child Thought Go

You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.

Michelle Carter

Good Power Time Feet You Place

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Miroslav Vitous

Music Play Jazz Whole Bass Fact

Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.

Lorraine Hansberry

Women Men Think Way Same Status

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

People Crazy Easy Paris Say Yes

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