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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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
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I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.
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The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.
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We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
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The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
