Will Gompertz Quotes
We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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I've been making deals all my life.
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Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.
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And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
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We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.
