Tadao Ando Quotes
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.
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When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
