Tadao Ando Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.
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At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
