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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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.
Fatema Mernissi -
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
Abigail Disney -
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.
Harold Prince -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa -
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright -
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. Sweeney
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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 -
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe -
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
Gabrielle Union -
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 -
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
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!'
Parker Posey
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
Edgar Wright -
Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
Daniel Dennett -
The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
Paramahansa Yogananda -
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
Lafcadio Hearn -
'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
Octavia E. Butler -
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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Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.
Stuart Wilde -
All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler -
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom -
There's no one person that can provide all the insights I need to run the business. There are so many aspects to WeWork: Digital, real estate, operations, space, and design. I pick and choose people who can help in each aspect.
Adam Neumann -
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
Alexandra Maria Lara -
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Norman Foster