Richard Rogers Quotes
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.
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I'm not scared of the president of the United States. And I'm not scared to stand up against the president of the United States.
