Paul Goldberger Quotes
The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
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I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
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When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
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I've been a Rams fan for so long.
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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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Climate change is real.
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The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
