Carlo Scarpa Quotes
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
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I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.
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In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.
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Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
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Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
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You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!
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So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
