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.
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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 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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There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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The only one who can beat me is me.
