Jaime Lerner Quotes

Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.

Jaime Lerner

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ChangePeopleCityProblemsBetter

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

Maurice Sendak

WorkYoungStillTurnedEnamored

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

Andy Stern

StrongerStopPayOutContracts

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Luigi Pirandello

RelationshipMyselfPresentWishYou

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Diane Abbott

ChildLonelyUpOwnYourVery

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

Draymond Green

LifeStoryGrindGoFirstWhole

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Christopher Meloni

WorkLoveSayingAttentionActing

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

William Petersen

LifeWorkLiveGrowing UpRestYou

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Pope Francis

WallsBuildingBridgesChristianMay

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

Rick Nielsen

GreatVoiceLookImportantSound

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

Lynn Nottage

MyselfLookingLoseI CanTrain

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

HumorImpossibleMoreIronyLittle

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

Lili Reinhart

LifeI AmPeopleMeThinkMy Life

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