Jaime Lerner Quotes

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

Jaime Lerner

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As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

Michael Fassbender

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For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

Steve Erickson

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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Stephen Hawking

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San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Tom Lehrer

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There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.

Ron Chernow

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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

Martin Scorsese

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I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Joshua Cohen

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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Jordan Peterson

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When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Jon Katz

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I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

Chris Stapleton

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Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

Colin Trevorrow

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Even when I watch it, I laugh, because I think, 'That's me! I'm on 'Seinfeld.''

Constance Zimmer

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