Michael Graves Quotes
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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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.
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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.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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After being signed by WWE, Edge, Christian, Mark Henry, Giant Silva, Test and Ken Shamrock all trained at my house. I had a pool room with an indoor pool and a garden behind it. I took out the garden and put in a wrestling ring.
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I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
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The great love of my life is music.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
