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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Reddit was created for people to speak freely and authentically and also for us to protect and value privacy. We're sort of the anti-Facebook in that regard.
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I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
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I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
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I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.
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If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
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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.
