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Oscar Niemeyer Quotes

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: brazilian
Birth: December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012

Topics

Work Beauty Better Function Even

When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

You Go Done Years Through Going

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I Am Me Saying Punk Up Individual

Before I leave the earth, I'll have released a bunch of albums and a bunch of movies. I'm going to do it all. It's just that I have to strategically position myself on how I do it so that the world receives it.

Myself World Earth Movies Leave How

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Women Me Enough Long Lens Say

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

Girl Hot First Audition Some Movie

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Technology Today Power Space Mind

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

Water Israel Turkey Overflowing

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Water Back Head Anatomy Bullet Neck

I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.

Music Day Think End Of The Day End

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

You Everything Something Even Fact

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

Restaurant Never Eat Mama Chinese

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

Community People City Believe Pride

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