Norman Foster Quotes
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
