Tadao Ando Quotes
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
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I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.