Tadao Ando Quotes
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.
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The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
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Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
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We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
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I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
