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Oscar Niemeyer Quotes

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Dreams Daily Survive Humanity Able

In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

Funny Yourself Think Violence You

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Writing More Top Everything Out Up

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.

Life Good People Good People You

In the life of our organism, we are continually dealing with a development of force followed by a state of equilibrium. Of course, the human being has no conscious knowledge of what is really going on within him, but what takes place is so infinitely wise that the cleverness of the human ego is nothing by comparison.

Life Knowledge Wise Ego Place Human

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Father Mother Best Speak You Know

Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.

Joseph Stiglitz

People Society You Look Inequality

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

William Shawcross

Writing World Talking Easy Response

Vitiligo is just another difference, like freckles, big hair, tiny ears Everyone has differences.

Hair Differences Difference Everyone

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

William O. Douglas

Change Darkness Oppression Become

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Food Eating Escape Emotional Us

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Happy People Whose Vacant

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.

Good Goals Me Feel Year Goal

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