"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."

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Source : Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”

Robert Moses

#Hands Quotes #Chaos Quotes #Divine Quotes

“Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.”
“I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.”
“The happiest time of my life is now.”
“All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.”
“Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.”
“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.”
“English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.”
“I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.”

Source : "Nerdy meathead Jon Gabrus on straddling the bro/geek divide". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. February 3, 2016.

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