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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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.
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I don't like controversy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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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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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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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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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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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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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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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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If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.
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Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.
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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.
