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.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• 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
  • Women
  • Children
  • War

• 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
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Black
  • Greatest
  • Feminism

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Movies

• 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
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Moment

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• 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
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Discipline
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• 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
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Party

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Dress

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nice

• 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
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

  

  Mario Monti

• He just has to finish, ... He's doing everything right but the final act and that's finding some strength and finishing and finding a good base and putting it through the hoop. I just told him, 'You're going to have to dunk the ball.'

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Finish
  • Strenght

• Coming on the back of six poor performances -- on that front, I really enjoyed it. I didn't think it was my prettiest innings. But coming out and scoring a double-century against the best team in the world on the opening day of the test match, it's a special feeling.

  

  Brian Lara
  • World
  • Team
  • Performances

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Future
  • Design
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