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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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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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 came up with a story and I wrote it.
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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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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
