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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• Because
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  Nas
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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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
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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?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
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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
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

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

  

  Mae West
  • Worry
  • Interest
  • Diamond

• 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
  • Remember
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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
  • Money
  • Think
  • Education

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

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Age
  • Dying

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

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Light
  • Sun

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

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Confidence

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

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• Bush is no conservative.

  

  Bill Kristol

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

  

  David Gest
  • Women

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

  

  Marc Guggenheim

• When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Remember
  • Evil

• There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Song
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Question

• My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Life
  • War
  • Honor

• I'm a huge fan of Greta Gerwig, and working with her was also a dream come true. She was one of those directors who, when people asked me, 'Who do you wanna work with one day?' I'd say Greta Gerwig. I've always been a fan of mumblecore and her films, and so to work with her was just so much fun.

  

  Kathryn Newton
  • People
  • Work
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• As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

  

  Luther Strange

• I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Famous

• ...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Artist
  • Blessing
  • Satisfaction

• 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