Renzo Piano Quotes

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Never
  • Race
  • Club

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Real

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

  

  Usher
  • Children
  • Future
  • Philosophy

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Unknown

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

  

  George Mason
  • City
  • Tired

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Live
  • House

• House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

  

  John Boehner
  • House
  • Strong
  • Immigration

• I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Bad

• When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

  

  Renzo Piano
  • House
  • Satisfied
  • Architect