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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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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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.
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It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
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'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.
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In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
