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 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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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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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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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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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.
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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.
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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.
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I won't ski in the backcountry the day after a big storm anymore. The mountains are so humbling. As soon as you think you're on top or crushing it, that's when you need to be really careful.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
