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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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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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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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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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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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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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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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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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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In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.
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Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
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No technique is possible when men are free. … Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. … The individual must be fashioned by techniques … in order to wipe out the blots his personal determination introduces into the perfect design of the organization.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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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.
