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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You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
