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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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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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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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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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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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.
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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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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
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Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
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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.
