David Chipperfield Quotes
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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Full-body workouts are great for someone who can only train a few times per week, as missing one day will be less detrimental.
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Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.
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Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
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I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.
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You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
