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

  

  Rand Paul
  • Never
  • Race
  • Club

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Reality
  • Free
  • 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

• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Team
  • Successful

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Power
  • High
  • Giving

• scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence..We have supported, we are supporting and we shall sup port revolutionary movements in Latin America...We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Organization
  • Latin

• Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Style
  • English

• I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Couple

• The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Different

• Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Up

• At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Men

• We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Work
  • Different
  • Car

• I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe

• Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

  

  Bernice King
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Trump

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

  

  Renzo Piano
  • House
  • Satisfied
  • Architect