Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• I like sleeping a lot.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Sleeping

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Reality
  • Humility

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Fighting

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Week
  • motivation
  • Sunday

• I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.

  

  George Newbern
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small 'd.' I believe in democracy, and by democracy, I mean that, to as great an extent as possible, human beings have the right to control their own lives. And that means that you cannot separate the political structure from the economic structure.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Political

• I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Different
  • Art

• Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

  

  Bernie Worrell
  • School
  • Art

• The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Building