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

• 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.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• 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

• My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Identity
  • Start
  • Liberal

• 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

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Never
  • Better
  • Experiment

• 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

• I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

  

  Chris Messina

• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Questions

• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Humanity

• As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• 'It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture.' 'I can't believe an assistant attorney general came right out and said that.''Well, I wouldn't say it in public.'

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tired

• 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
  • Unknown