Renzo Piano Quotes
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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You can get beat any day.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
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L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.
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People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
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Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
