Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius) Quotes
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
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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.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.
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My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
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I feel very good about our business and the speed at which we are executing our strategy to drive differentiation for Accenture and accelerate our rotation to The New.
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I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.
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I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.
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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
