James Polshek Quotes
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.
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There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
