I will have to pay attention to half of the population who didn't vote for me. But I can tell you that I know how to negotiate. I'm a conciliatory, humble listener.


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OSCAR NIEMEYER
Surprise is key in all art.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Architecture is invention.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is car...
OSCAR NIEMEYER
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
OSCAR LEVANT
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
OSCAR LEVANT
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
OSCAR LEVANT
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking ...
OSCAR LEVANT
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
OSCAR LEVANT
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
OSCAR LEVANT
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
OSCAR LEVANT
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
OSCAR LEVANT
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
OSCAR LEVANT
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
OSCAR ISAAC
I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino act...
OSCAR ISAAC
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm....
OSCAR ISAAC
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playin...
OSCAR ISAAC
The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remembe...
OSCAR ISAAC
For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
OSCAR ISAAC
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
OSCAR ISAAC
Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
OSCAR ISAAC
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, see...
OSCAR ISAAC
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is...
OSCAR ISAAC
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,&...
OSCAR ISAAC
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
OSCAR ISAAC
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of...
OSCAR ISAAC