Philip Johnson Quotes
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I think I need security.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
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I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.