Renzo Piano Quotes
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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But what about the sufferings of the innocent? Worst of all is the hell that exists in the special psychiatric clinics in Dnieperopetrovsk, Sytshevk, Blagoveshensk, Kazan, Chernakovsk, Oriol, Leningrad, Tashkent, … .
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It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
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There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
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Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.
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I'm obsessed with jackets.
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I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.
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My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
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When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
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Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
