Rafael Moneo Quotes
I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.
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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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Being real is what is important.
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
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A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
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The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.
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But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.
