Michael Ian Black Quotes

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Michael Ian Black

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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
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  • Thinking
  • True

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Architecture

• I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Inspiration
  • Shows

• Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Architecture

• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Political
  • Architecture

• I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

  

  Dante Ferretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I am involved in the architecture of space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space
  • Architecture

• Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Life
  • Energy
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• I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

  

  John Rocha
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Today
  • House
  • Deep

• Knowledge, or more expressively truth, for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, truth is an ideal whole.

  

  John Sterling
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Whole

• Never underestimate the intrinsic, as opposed to ideological, conservatism of an idea like revolution once it’s got some momentum behind it.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Revolution

• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Women
  • Wife

• That first week was tough for us. But now we've come back with a good feeling. Right now, it's good for us to be back home.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Week
  • Back Home
  • Good Feeling

• You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Games
  • Architecture
  • Shows