Renzo Piano Quotes

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

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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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Society
  • Education
  • Advocate

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • America
  • High
  • Soul

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Try
  • Politicians
  • Cease

• I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Live
  • Real
  • Fear

• I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.

  

  Eminem
  • Lyrics

• For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Life
  • Faith

• Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Wrestling

• Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.

  

  Kim Clijsters

• It's so perfectly Alaska to be like, 'Dad we're going to the Grammys,' and for him to be like, 'Oh, well that's great, Johnny. All right, gotta go back to work.'

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Work
  • Great
  • Dad

• Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death

• He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

  

  Plutarch
  • Reach
  • Close
  • Leaves

• Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Record
  • Musicians
  • Anywhere

• If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • You
  • Create
  • Does

• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Should
  • Architecture
  • Accepting