Renzo Piano Quotes
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.
Quotes to Explore
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
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Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...
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It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
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Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.
