Norman Foster Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
G. Willow Wilson -
The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
Campbell Newman -
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant -
I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
Carl Paladino -
Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
Ted Deutch
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney -
Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Pat Brown -
Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren Bennis -
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
Cameron Russell -
I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
Victor Mitchell
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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
Harold Pinter -
Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
Pardis Sabeti -
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
N. T. Wright -
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
Earl Blumenauer
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
Kate Levering -
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
Karin Slaughter -
'The old man forgot one thing. This England of his is Christian and Anglo-Saxon. And so are her corridors of power, and those who stalk them guard them with jealousy and venom.
Colin Welland -
I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
Edgar Ramirez -
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
Scott McClellan -
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
Norman Foster