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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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
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People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.
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I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
