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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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright
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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
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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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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
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Mesh networking is an old idea. Oddly enough, the low-cost XO Laptop built by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization - the so-called $100 laptop - was designed with built-in mesh networking. The idea with the XO machine was that many kids using those laptops would be out in rural areas without reliable Internet access.
Daniel Lyons
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
Twyla Tharp
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Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.
Kenneth R. Miller
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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.
Deeyah Khan
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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
