Steven Holl Quotes
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Actors make less than you think.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
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When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.
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Health isn't only what was genetically given to you; it's also about your environment and what you do on a day-to-day basis. The more we understand that, the more we can personalize it, and really, it requires us to have more and more data about the individual.
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It's always challenging to go into a role.
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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
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I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.
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I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
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Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
