Cedric Price Quotes
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.
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Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place.
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If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.
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Who can be born black and not exult!
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
