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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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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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 spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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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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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
