Jaime Lerner Quotes

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

Jaime Lerner

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LifeGoodQualityPeopleCityWant

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

Jimmy Carl Black

MusicGreatCreativityMusiciansYou

I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.

Jillian Bell

WorkFunnyPeopleThinkLuckyHuman

There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

FlowersDoorStrongAskDifference

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Robert Reich

SilentRealOverYearsLastRadical

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Robert Kiyosaki

LifeMoneyHappyPeopleBetter

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Steven Soderbergh

FailurePeopleComfortableGuyBeing

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

WritingMoreHiddenCancerBigIdea

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

MoneyMindIdeasWealthOrigin

I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.

Mary E. Pearson

SayingChanceStoryThinkDoneWill

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Martin Van Buren

LifeMy LifeSurrenderOfficeDays

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

ArchitectureCreativeSchoolNew York

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Jonathan Swift

AgeGreatTalentPeopleYouthGlory

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