Norman Foster Quotes
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I don't like controversy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
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As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
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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.
