Renzo Piano Quotes
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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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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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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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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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’
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Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.
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By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
