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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Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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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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It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.
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I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.
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When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
