Philip Johnson Quotes
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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I believe in God. And I believe in the custody of God vested in kings. And I'm very happy to have your name as 'King.' It's the King!
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
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A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.
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His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
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I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
