Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogerswas an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 November 1879
CountryUnited States of America
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
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The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'
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I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
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Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
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Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
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I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.
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How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?
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Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.
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I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done
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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
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We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
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There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.