Billy Tauzin Quotes
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
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I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.
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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
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Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
