Richard Rogers Quotes

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Richard Rogers

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• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

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• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
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• Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
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• I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

  

  Algernon Sidney
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• If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.

  

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• Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

  

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• When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.

  

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• Bush is no conservative.

  

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• I'm into women. I've always loved women.

  

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• I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.

  

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  Max Lerner
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• I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
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• I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

  

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• The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

  

  Buddy Valastro
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• The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
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• We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Women
  • War
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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • People
  • Quality
  • Because