Richard Rogers Quotes
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
