"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
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"Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war"
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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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"When we build, let us think that we build forever."
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"I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass."
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"The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity."
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"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."
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"He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard."
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"Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that."
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"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself."
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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
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"People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance."
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"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you."
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"See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things"
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"I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional."
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"I call architecture frozen music."
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"Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole."
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"Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating."
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"There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today."
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"We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place."
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