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 think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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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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There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties Democrats and Republicans have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just too confusing. Everybody claiming Lincoln as their own. And everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that all of us are enjoying today.
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Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.
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I’m obsessed by nature, I’m obsessed by the British countryside and I’m obsessed by the National Trust. Nature, Architecture and beauty all rolled into one.
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There is no such thing as ugly.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
