Daniel Libeskind Quotes
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on and make sure that it's really something that I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work.
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
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If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
