Renzo Piano Quotes

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

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• I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Always
  • Travel
  • Coffee

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• I like to write a lot of satire.

  

  Earl King
  • Like
  • Write
  • Satire

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work

• I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Time

• I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • School
  • Law

• When it comes to work, I have a lot of patience, but otherwise, I am quite impatient.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Work
  • Patience

• I grew up in a quiet suburb in South Texas, and loved the in-your-faceness of the East Village. In the early days, when I was still unemployed, I'd lie on a bench in Tompkins Square Park perusing the listings in the 'Village Voice' for a place to live.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Texas

• The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

  

  Katie Hafner

• We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Why
  • May

• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

  

  John Holmes
  • Remember
  • Universe

• Follow the advice of those who know much, but above all follow the advice of those who loves you.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Advice
  • Loves
  • Follow

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I'm just an actress, so I can leave my work when I leave the set. I don't get strange calls in the middle of the night, and I don't have tons of responsibility.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Responsibility
  • Actress
  • Calls

• I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • Building