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 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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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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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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What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
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Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
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You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.
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Jimmy Dean was my best friend.
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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
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My parents have been unbelievable. Obviously, without them, I wouldn't be where I am.
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Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?
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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.
