Martin Filler Quotes
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
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You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
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I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
