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.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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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.
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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.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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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.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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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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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
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You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
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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.
