Renzo Piano Quotes

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

Renzo Piano

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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
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