Richard Meier Quotes
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
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The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
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Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
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Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
