William H. Whyte Quotes
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
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I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
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A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.
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Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
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In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.
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The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
