Carlo Ratti Quotes
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
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Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
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Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
