Norman Foster Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
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Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.
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It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.
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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
