Rafael Vinoly Quotes
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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.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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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.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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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.
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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.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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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.
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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.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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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.
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I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
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We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.
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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.
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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.
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I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.
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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.
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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.
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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
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Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.
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Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
