Mario Botta Quotes
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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I don't mind sitting at home for six months if there's no film that I want to do.
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I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
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I like to add something unusual to a dish.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
