Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
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At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
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Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
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When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
