Norman Foster Quotes
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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I don't believe in making fashion difficult.
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To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.
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I believe only in the mathematics.
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As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.
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The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
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Interviewed by CNN's Christiana Amanpour about his current feelings regarding blame for the September 11th attacks, and whether or not he still feels as he did when he made the conversial statement cited above (8 May 2007) (video recording). This statement attesting that he still blamed so many was made one week before his death.
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We're just happy, ... We wanted to win this game so bad. I've got to take my hat off to my teammates. They played big. They really picked me up tonight.
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Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
