Richard Meier Quotes
We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.
Quotes to Explore
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.
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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
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I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
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Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.
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IF you want to see my monument, look around you!
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You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.
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Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.
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I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle.
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If I could push a button and get rid of all these dumb people flying Nazi flags and have them never show up - They are a big problem for the Right.
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We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.
