John Lautner Quotes
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
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I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.
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Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
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Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
