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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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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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 not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.
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After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.
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There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
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All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.
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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.
