Rafael Vinoly Quotes

Buildings are forms of performances.

Rafael Vinoly

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Record
  • Dialogue
  • CD

• Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Important
  • Space
  • Goals

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Best
  • Stand

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Story
  • Three
  • Shots

• The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Water

• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Partner

• I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Italian

• We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera

• Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Music
  • She
  • Song

• I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

  

  Joe Trohman Fall Out Boy
  • Mind
  • Technology

• I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Life

• If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

  

  John Cameron
  • People

• I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Important
  • Safety
  • Insecurity

• The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Opinion

• Bodies like this give sexual desire its meaning! It’s for this that penises rise like drawbridges and vaginas become engorged with blood! It’s for this that people throw snot-nosed kids into ravines, cross raging rivers, or ice-pick up the wrong side of frozen waterfalls! It’s for this that politicians undo their flies in election season, porn magazines with their pages stuck together are found stacked in church basements, people chop off body parts and mail them to ex-lovers, risk hair on palms, stolen wallets, planes flying into buildings, and lice that hop like chess figurines on a board whose players are ever changing.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Blood
  • Players
  • Rivers

• If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Study
  • Understand
  • Entrepreneur

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms