Norman Foster Quotes
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Norman Foster
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
Madeline Kahn
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
Gabrielle Union
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
R. Lee Ermey
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As I do understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. He who has God's grace in his heart cannot go astray.
Anne Hutchinson
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
Quentin Crisp
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The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
Andre Bazin
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The future of architecture is culture.
Philip Johnson
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The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
Dalai Lama
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Norman Foster