Norman Foster Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.
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I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
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You want to know what scares people? Success.
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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
