Norman Foster Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
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I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.
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There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
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Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
