Jaime Lerner Quotes

Brazil will change when its cities change.

Jaime Lerner

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ChangeWillBrazilCities

It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is in Britain, too, because it has an informality and a fluidity that should really be celebrated.

Max Richter

GoodMusicTraditionRememberTrue

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

Robert Lepage

CompassionPeopleThinkSomeonePlay

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

Ann Veneman

FoodPeopleSafetyStrongThinkEat

I love competing in everything that I do, and I try to express that, but I try not to rush it.

Stefon Diggs

LoveTryEverythingCompetingRush

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Sidney Hook

FearPastDeathPresentTyranny

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

Mary Pilon

RealistBooksWhoLikeReadReally

The nuclear deal with Iran's radical clerics and their military junta is the most dangerous and potentially deadly action that the Obama administration has yet taken.

Mike Pompeo

ActionDangerousMilitaryRadical

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Michael Moritz

MomentMistakesSmartPeopleIdeas

When you see somebody who always came so close, and they finally accomplish what they've been working for - to see someone excel and break through that barrier - it's a great moment not just for that athlete but for all of us.

Michelle Carter

GreatMomentSomeoneYouAccomplish

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

Joshua Henry

TeacherMomAccountingMathFirm

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Alfred P. Sloan

CourageAmbitionObstaclesNew

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

Shawn Mendes

MyselfOceanMeNothingMoreBeing

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