Tadao Ando Quotes
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
