Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
