Steven Holl Quotes
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
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He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
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It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.
