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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I don't like controversy.
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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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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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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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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:
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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'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.'
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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.
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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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.
