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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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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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 guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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Architecture is an expression of values.
