Michael Graves Quotes
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
Fisher Stevens
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
Nancy Mitford
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.
Hannah Murray
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
Adam Driver
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
Salman Rushdie
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
James Polshek
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
Martin Filler
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
Taylor Lautner
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If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth.
The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.
Hannah Arendt
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Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
Seth Godin
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
