Norman Foster Quotes
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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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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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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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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
