Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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Awkward is a state of being.
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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess, and when kids came up to her with no make-up and ripped jeans on, she said, 'I'm off duty. I'm an off-duty princess', and I thought that was quite sweet.
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I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
