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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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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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 think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
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The purpose of this is to coordinate such tasks which would make it possible to break the situation, which makes special threat to the security and stability to Europe, and to direct the events ... towards a peaceful settlement
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It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.
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I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.
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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.
