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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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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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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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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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.
