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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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
